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基于X射线和光学数据的椭圆星系近似等温引力势的比较

Comparison of an approximately isothermal gravitational potentials of elliptical galaxies based on X-ray and optical data

E. Churazov, S. Tremaine, W. Forman, O. Gerhard, P. Das, A. Vikhlinin, C. Jones, H. Boehringer, K. Gebhardt

摘要:

我们分析了钱德拉和XMM-牛顿观测到的六个X射线明亮椭圆星系,并在半径从~0.5到~25 kpc的范围内用等温球φ(r)=v_c^2 ln(r)近似它们的引力势。然后,我们比较圆速度v_c来自X射线数据与估计可从光学数据。特别是,我们讨论了两个简单而强大的程序,用于评估使用所观察到的光学表面亮度和视线速度色散分布的星系的圆周速度。从恒星的光学观测和热气体的X射线观测得到的圆速度之间的最佳拟合关系是v_{c,opt} ~ η* v_{c,X},其中η=1.10-1.15(取决于方法),这表明,尽管有很大的统计和系统的不确定性,非热压力平均贡献约20-30%的气体热压力。

英文摘要:

We analyze six X-ray bright elliptical galaxies, observed with Chandra and XMM-Newton, and approximate their gravitational potentials by isothermal spheres phi(r)=v_c^2 ln(r) over a range of radii from ~0.5 to ~25 kpc. We then compare the circular speed v_c derived from X-ray data with the estimators available from optical data. In particular we discuss two simple and robust procedures for evaluating the circular speed of the galaxy using the observed optical surface brightness and the line-of-sight velocity dispersion profiles. The best fitting relation between the circular speeds derived from optical observations of stars and X-ray observations of hot gas is v_{c,opt}~ η* v_{c,X}, where η=1.10-1.15 (depending on the method), suggesting, albeit with large statistical and systematic uncertainties, that non-thermal pressure on average contributes ~20-30% of the gas thermal pressure.

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