Extra-planar Hot Gas and Magnetic Fields in the Superwind Galaxy NGC 4666
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XMM-Newton combined EPIC-pn & MOS contour map of NGC 4666 in the 0.5 - 0.9 keV energy band overlaid on the Hα+N[II] optical narrow band image from M. Lehnert. In the halo the most extended optical emission line filaments form an "X"-shaped structure (cf. the plates in Lehnert & Heckman (1996)). Vectors mark the orientation of the magnetic field observed at 4.89 GHz with the VLA (Dahlem et al. (1997)), their lengths are proportional to the polarized intensity.
Extra-planar soft X-ray emitting hot gas is observed above the most actively star-forming regions in the galactic disk of NGC 4666 and coexists together
with filaments of the warm ionized medium, cosmic rays and vertical
magnetic field structures channelling (or following) the outflow.
Investigator(s): M. Ehle, M. Dahlem
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- Read the Journal article
- Query XSA archive for XMM-Newton data in the field of NGC 4666
- Astronomical database entries for NGC 4666;
- Query NED for more images about NGC 4666
- Query SIMBAD for more NGC 4666 data
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