SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 600115

SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 600115

Title: BRIGHT ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES AND HIGH REDSHIFT CLUSTERS

Observer: MUSHOTZKY**

Subject Category: Normal Galaxies

Seq: 600115 ObsId: 00239

Long-term Plan bin: 17-Jan-2000

ABSTRACT

The program consists of 1) detailed spatially resolved spectra of bright elliptical galaxies and 2) deep images of high redshift cluster candidates NGC4472,NGC4636 and NGC 4472 are 3 of the brightest x-ray elliptical galaxies. The AXAF exposure times with ACIS-S are set to derive temperature and abundance profiles for >3 annuli inside the deVacouleurs radius allowing a direct comparison of the gas and stellar abundances and the gas and stellar temperatures. These deep exposures should also detect numerous x-ray binaries in these galaxies. 3C324 is a z=1.2 cluster that is the most distant x-ray cluster known. The S-Z cluster 1312+42 is one of two objects for which a significant Sunyaev-Zeldovich decrement is measured but for which there is no optical cluster visible.

TARGET SUMMARY

TARGET NAME RADEC TIME SI GRAT TYPE TC ROLL PRE PHASE MULTI PRI
NGC 1399
54.622500
-35.450110
3.780000
ACIS-I
NONE
GTO
no
yes
no
no
no
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IMAGES

(NOTE: RASS images currently only available for targets LTS scheduled on or after Apr-09-2000)

Roll/Visibility

PARAMETERS

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