Discovery of a very extended X-ray halo around a quiescent spiral galaxy - The "missing link" of galaxy formation

New Astronomy

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 465-470

  Pedersen, Kristian ^a   Rasmussen, Jesper ^b   Sommer Larsen, Jesper ^a   Toft, Sune ^c   Benson, Andrew J ^d   Bower, Richard G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: halos; Galaxies: individual (NGC 5746, NGC 5170); X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; GALAXIES; GASES; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

GALAXIES: FORMATION; GALAXIES: HALOS; GALAXIES: INDIVIDUAL (NGC 5746, NGC 5170); QUIESCENT SPIRAL GALAXIES; X-RAYS: GALAXIES;

X RAYS;

EID: 33646014439     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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