Giant X-Ray Disk Sheds Light On Galactic Merger
chandra_143 December 18th, 2002
Credit: NASA/Ohio U./T.Statler et al.
Chandra's image of NGC 1700 shows a flattened oval of multi-million degree gas. Low-energy X-ray data reveals a giant inner disk 90,000 light years in diameter. An analysis shows that it is rotating and appears to be cooling. The existence of a large, rotating disk of hot gas suggests that NGC 1700 was created by the merger of a rotating spiral galaxy and an elliptical galaxy containing hot gas.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/n1700/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Image Details
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 143
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.4
- Subject Name
- NGC 1700
- Credits
- NASA/Ohio U./T.Statler et al.
- Release Date
- 2002-12-18
- Lightyears
- 160,000,000
- Redshift
- 160,000,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/n1700/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra, Chandra
- Instrument
- ACIS, ACIS
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Red
- Band
- X-ray, X-ray
- Bandpass
- X-ray, X-ray
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- 2000-11-03T22:52:39, 2000-11-03T22:52:39
- Integration Time
- 43350, 43350
- Dataset ID
- 2069, 2069
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 74.2345574, -4.8658883
- Reference Dimension
- 2400.0, 2400.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1201.0, 1201.0
- Scale
- 2.72367e-05, 2.7236742e-05
- Rotation
- 0.11
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Chandra X-Ray Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- n1700_xray.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/n1700/n1700_xray.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-07-26T16:26:18-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
