Resolving the mystery of X-ray-faint elliptical galaxies: Chandra X-ray observations of NGC 4697

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 544, Issue 2 PART 2, 2000, Pages

  Sarazin, Craig L ^a   Irwin, Jimmy A ^b   Bregman, Joel N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: ISM; X rays: galaxies; X rays: ISM; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034556798     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/317308     Document Type: Article

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