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JD8 - Hot Interstellar Matter in Elliptical Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Dong-Woo Kim  and
Silvia Pellegrini
Dong-Woo Kim
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA email: kim@cfa.harvard.edu
Silvia Pellegrini
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Bologna, via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy email: silvia.pellegrini@unibo.it
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The physical properties of the hot interstellar matter in elliptical galaxies are directly related with the formation and evolution of elliptical galaxies via star formation episodes, environmental effects such as stripping, infall, and mergers, and growth of super-massive black holes. The recent successful Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray space missions have provided a large amount of high spatial/spectral resolution observational data on the hot ISM in elliptical galaxies. At the same time, theoretical studies with numerical simulations and analytical modeling of the dynamical and chemical evolution of elliptical galaxies have made a significant progress and start to predict various observable quantities.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Highlights H15: Highlights of Astronomy , November 2009 , pp. 269 - 270
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