| PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
| Proposal Title | Probing the outburst history and precessing jet in Hydra A |
| Proposal Category | Galaxies, Groups of Galaxies, Clusters of Galaxies and Superclusters |
| Proposal Type | LARGE PROGRAM |
| Proposal Id | 084389 |
| Number of Observations | 3 |
| Total exposure time (ks) | 330 |
| PI DETAILS | |
| PI | Prof Hans Boehringer |
| Institute | USM University of Munich |
| Country | GERMANY |
| CO-INVESTIGATORS | ||
| Name | Country | |
| G. Chon | GERMANY | |
| M. Krause | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| M. Hardcastle | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| P. Yates | AUSTRALIA | |
| S. Shabala | AUSTRALIA | |
| G. Bicknell | AUSTRALIA | |
| ABSTRACT | |
| Hydra A is arguably the most spectacular nearby radio galaxy showing very energetic interaction of the radio jets with the embedding intracluster medium (ICM) of the A 780 host cluster. It has been the subject of several studies revealing many interesting features including signs of a precessing jet and multiple radio outbursts. However, there are still crucial open questions. We want to improve our understanding of this benchmark system by studying the interaction of the precessing jet with the ICM and by testing a new scenario of multiple radio outburst events. What is urgently needed are deeper X-ray spectro-imaging observations for the detailed diagnostics and modeling of the ICM, which we propose here with a net XMM-Newton exposure of 312 ks. | |
| PAPERS |
| - CLASS 1: | papers that present specific XMM-Newton observations |
| - CLASS 2: | papers that refer to published XMM-Newton results with complementary observations, follow-up analysis, or theoretical analysis |
| - CLASS 3: | further deliveries which resulted from the program and which are made available to the community (e.g. source catalogues, processed images or spectra in public data base) |
| - CLASS 4: | comments and suggestions from PI |
| CLASS 1 (2 references) |
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