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Near Infrared Imaging of the Merger Candidate NGC 1052

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Duncan A. Forbes
Duncan A. Forbes*
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy Madingley Road Cambridge CB3 0HA, U.K.

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NGC 1052 is a flat-spectrum radio elliptical exhibiting a characteristic low excitation LINER spectrum. Independent evidence, such as extensive and infalling HI gas, and misalignment of the stellar and ionized gas components, suggest a merger has occurred. Optical CCD imaging reveals the presence of dust and a spiral morphology for the Hα emission (see Forbes, Sparks and Macchetto 1990). The X-ray luminosity is consistent with a hot gaseous halo in which a cooling flow is claimed to be operating (Thomas et al. 1986).

Type
XI- Galaxy Evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 146: Dynamics of Galaxies and their Molecular Cloud Distributions , 1991 , pp. 398
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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