... environment[*]
Based on observations obtained with XMM-Newton, an ESA science mission with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA Member States and the USA (NASA).
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... operation[*]
We will refer hereafter to the summed spectra as simply the MOS spectra.
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... nebula[*]
The E-W and N-S ellipses have large and small semi-axis of $3.3\hbox{$^\prime$ }\times 1.1\hbox{$^\prime$ }$and $1.7\hbox{$^\prime$ }\times 1.1\hbox{$^\prime$ }$, respectively.
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... acceptable[*]
We regard a fit as statistically acceptable when the null hypothesis probability computed from the reduced $\chi ^2$ and number of degrees of freedom is greater then 5%.
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Copyright ESO 2001