Chemical enrichment of the complex hot ISM of the Antennae galaxies: I. Spatial and spectral analysis of the diffuse X-ray emission
A. Baldi, J. C. Raymond, G. Fabbiano, A. Zezas, A. H. Rots, F. Schweizer, A. R. King, T. J. Ponman
Abstract
We present an analysis of the properties of the hot interstellar medium (ISM) in the merging pair of galaxies known as The Antennae (NGC 4038/39), performed using the deep, coadded ~411 ks Chandra ACIS-S data set. These deep X-ray observations and Chandra's high angular resolution allow us to investigate the properties of the hot ISM with unprecedented spatial and spectral resolution. Through a spatially resolved spectral analysis, we find a variety of temperatures (from 0.2 to 0.7 keV) and Nh (from Galactic to 2x1021 cm-2). Metal abundances for Ne, Mg, Si, and Fe vary dramatically throughout the ISM from sub-solar values (~0.2) up to several times solar.
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