Million-degree plasma pervading the extended Orion Nebula

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5861, 2008, Pages 309-312

  Güdel, Manuel ^a,b,c,d   Briggs, Kevin R ^a,e   Montmerle, Thierry ^d   Audard, Marc ^f,g   Rebull, Luisa ^h   Skinner, Stephen L ⁱ  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CLOUD; GAS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OUTFLOW; PLASMA;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; FIELD EMISSION; METEOROLOGY; ORION NEBULA; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRUM; TELECOMMUNICATION; TEMPERATURE; X RAY;

TRAPEZIUM;

EID: 38349170996     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1149926     Document Type: Article

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26. We thank D. Malin for providing the optical image of the Orion Nebula taken with the UK Schmidt telescope and granting permission to use it and R. Subrahmanyan and the American Astronomical Society for granting permission to reproduce the radio panel in Fig. 4D. This research is based on observations obtained with XMM-Newton, a European Space Agency (ESA) science mission with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA member states and the United States (NASA). M.A. acknowledges support from a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship (PP002-110504), and S.S. from NASA grant NNG05GE69G.