Hot gas halo in early type galaxies and their environments

  • Published : 2012.04.03

Abstract

We present an investigation of X-ray hot gas halo in 12 isolated early-type galaxies from cross-matched sample of XMM-Newton and SDSS DR 7(0.025 < z < 0.08588 and Mr <-19.5). Isolated galaxies that the separation between galaxy and the closest neighbor is farther than its virial radius are not affected by environments, and their X-ray hot gas halo can be studied without contribution of intragalactic medium in all circumstances. We find that isolated galaxies in low density have correlation of $L_X-L_R$ and those in high density have no trend. This suggests that internal process is much effective in low density and environmental effects play important role of this relationship in high density. We also find the galaxies affected by environments in the large scale structure. In this paper, we report preliminary results for the study.

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