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Title: Cooling in the X-ray halo of the rotating, massive early-type galaxy NGC 7049

Journal Article · · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8]; ORCiD logo [9];  [10];  [11];  [12]
  1. Masaryk Univ., Brno (Czech Republic)
  2. Masaryk Univ., Brno (Czech Republic); MTA-Eotvos Lorand Univ. Lendulet Hot Universe Research Group, Budapest (Hungary); Hiroshima Univ., Higashi-Hiroshima (Japan)
  3. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
  4. MTA-Eotvos Lorand Univ. Lendulet Hot Universe Research Group, Budapest (Hungary)
  5. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley, WA (Australia)
  6. Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL (United States)
  7. Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
  8. Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  9. SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht (The Netherlands); Leiden Univ., Leiden (The Netherlands)
  10. Leiden Univ., Leiden (The Netherlands); ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Dwingeloo (The Netherlands)
  11. The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Pasadena, CA (United States)
  12. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)

The relative importance of the physical processes shaping the thermodynamics of the hot gas permeating rotating, massive early-type galaxies is expected to be different from that in non-rotating systems. Here, we report the results of the analysis of XMM–Newton data for the massive, lenticular galaxy NGC 7049. The galaxy harbours a dusty disc of cool gas and is surrounded by an extended hot X-ray emitting gaseous atmosphere with unusually high central entropy. The hot gas in the plane of rotation of the cool dusty disc has a multitemperature structure, consistent with ongoing cooling. We conclude that the rotational support of the hot gas is likely capable of altering the multiphase condensation regardless of the tcool/tff ratio, which is here relatively high, ~40. However, the measured ratio of cooling time and eddy turnover time around unity (C-ratio ≈ 1) implies significant condensation, and at the same time, the constrained ratio of rotational velocity and the velocity dispersion (turbulent Taylor number) Tat > 1 indicates that the condensing gas should follow non-radial orbits forming a disc instead of filaments. Furthermore, this is in agreement with hydrodynamical simulations of massive rotating galaxies predicting a similarly extended multiphase disc.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1529233
Journal Information:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 484; ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Royal Astronomical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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