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X-Ray Measurements of the Mass Profiles in Massive Isolated Elliptical Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2015

David A. Buote ,
Ewan O'Sullivan  and
Trevor J. Ponman
David A. Buote
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-4575USA. email: [email protected]
Ewan O'Sullivan
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, MS-50 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. email: [email protected]
Trevor J. Ponman
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We discuss some results for mass profiles that we have obtained from hydrostatic studies of the hot gas in isolated, massive elliptical galaxies.

Keywords

galaxies: elliptical and lenticulardark matter: galaxiescD - galaxies: evolutiongalaxies: formationgalaxies: fundamental parametersgalaxies: ISMX-rays: galaxies
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Issue S311: Galaxy Masses as Constraints of Formation Models , July 2014 , pp. 40 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2015 

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