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X-Ray Measurements of the Mass Profiles in Massive Isolated Elliptical Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2015

David A. Buote ,
Ewan O'Sullivan  and
Trevor J. Ponman
David A. Buote
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-4575USA. email: buote@uci.edu
Ewan O'Sullivan
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, MS-50 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. email: eosullivan@cfa.harvard.edu
Trevor J. Ponman
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. email: tjp@star.sr.bham.ac.uk
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Abstract

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We discuss some results for mass profiles that we have obtained from hydrostatic studies of the hot gas in isolated, massive elliptical galaxies.

Keywords

galaxies: elliptical and lenticulardark matter: galaxiescD - galaxies: evolutiongalaxies: formationgalaxies: fundamental parametersgalaxies: ISMX-rays: galaxies
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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Issue S311: Galaxy Masses as Constraints of Formation Models , July 2014 , pp. 40 - 44
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2015 

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