Three colour XMM-Newton image of the NGC 253 disc and nuclear region
Minimum credit line: Image courtesy of W. Pietsch, MPE, Garching and ESA. (for details, see Conditions of Use).
Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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Emission detected in all three EPIC instruments (MOS1, MOS2 and pn) have been merged together. Red, green and blue show respectively (0.2-0.5) keV, (0.5-0.9) keV and (0.9-2.0) keV bands, while the hard (2-10) keV emission is shown superimposed as contours. Shown in detail to the lower left is a factor 2 zoom-in on the nuclear region. The ellipse indicates the optical extent of NGC 253.
Investigator(s): W. Pietsch
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