| Issue |
A&A
Volume 386, Number 2, May I 2002
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 472 - 486 | |
| Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020311 | |
| Published online | 15 May 2002 | |
The peculiar small-scale X-ray morphology of NGC 5846 observed
with 
1
Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via Brera 28, 20121 Milano, Italy
2
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Corresponding author: G. Trinchieri, ginevra@brera.mi.astro.it
Received:
15
January
2001
Accepted:
19
February
2002
The excellent quality of the Chandra observation of NGC 5846
reveals a
complex X-ray morphology of the central regions of this
galaxy. An intriguing morphological similarity between the X-ray and the
optical line emission, discovered before using ROSAT HRI images (Trinchieri et al. 1997), is confirmed here in unprecedented detail.
Complex spectral characteristics are associated with the morphological
peculiarities, indicating a possibly turbulent gas in this object.
A population of ~40 individual sources is also observed,
with Lx in the range ~
erg s-1, with an X-ray luminosity function
that is steeper in the high-luminosity end than in other early-type
galaxies.
Key words: galaxies: individual: NGC 5846 / X-rays: galaxies
© ESO, 2002
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