| PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
| Proposal Title | Unraveling the large-scale impact of feedback on the CGM of NGC3221 in emission |
| Proposal Category | Galaxies, Groups of Galaxies, Clusters of Galaxies and Superclusters |
| Proposal Type | LARGE PROGRAM |
| Proposal Id | 092217 |
| Number of Observations | 4 |
| Total exposure time (ks) | 454 |
| PI DETAILS | |
| PI | Dr. Sanskriti Das |
| Institute | KIPAC Stanford University |
| Country | UNITED STATES |
| CO-INVESTIGATORS | ||
| Name | Country | |
| S. Mathur | UNITED STATES | |
| A. Gupta | UNITED STATES | |
| Y. Krongold | MEXICO | |
| M. Li | CHINA | |
| S. Allen | UNITED STATES | |
| ABSTRACT | |
| The circumgalactic medium (CGM) plays an instrumental role in galaxy evolution. From shallow archival data of Suzaku and XMM, we have detected the extended (~150 kpc) and massive hot CGM of NGC 3221, an L* star-forming galaxy. There is suggestive evidence of cavities along the minor axis and super-virial temperature within 100 kpc, an indirect imprint of galactic outflow on the hot CGM. We would like to confirm our tentative yet exciting findings with deep data. We ask for 430 ks XMM-Newton/EPIC time to precisely characterize the radial and angular profiles of surface brightness, density, temperature, pressure, and entropy of the hot CGM of NGC 3221 through imaging, spectroscopy, and modeling. Our results would set the precedence for studying the hot CGM in the current and next decade. | |
| 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 |