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Title:
A new superwind galaxy: XMM-Newton observations of NGC 6810
Authors:
Strickland, David K.
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA;
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 376, Issue 2, pp. 523-533. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
04/2007
Origin:
MNRAS
MNRAS Keywords:
galaxies: haloes , galaxies: individual: NGC 6810 , galaxies: Seyfert , galaxies: starburst , X-rays: galaxies
Abstract Copyright:
(c) 2007 The Author. Journal compilation © 2007 RAS
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11478.x
Bibliographic Code:
2007MNRAS.376..523S

Abstract

We present the first imaging X-ray observation of the highly inclined (i = 78°) Sab Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 6810 using XMM-Newton, which reveals soft X-ray emission that extends out to a projected height of ~7 kpc away from the plane of the galaxy. The soft X-ray emission beyond the optical disc of the galaxy is most plausibly extraplanar, although it could instead come from large galactic radius. This extended X-ray emission is spatially associated with diffuse Hα emission, in particular with a prominent 5-kpc-long Hα filament on the north-west of the disc. A fraction <~35 per cent of the total soft X-ray emission of the galaxy arises from projected heights |z| >= 2 kpc. Within the optical disc of the galaxy the soft X-ray emission is associated with the star-forming regions visible in ground-based Hα and XMM-Newton optical monitor near-UV imaging. The temperature, supersolar α-element-to-iron abundance ratio, soft X-ray/Hα correlation, and X-ray to far-infrared (FIR) flux ratio of NGC 6810 are all consistent with local starbursts with winds, although the large base radius of the outflow would make NGC 6810 one of the few `disc-wide' superwinds currently known. Hard X-ray emission from NGC 6810 is weak, and the total E = 2-10 keV luminosity and spectral shape are consistent with the expected level of X-ray binary emission from the old and young stellar populations. The X-ray observations provide no evidence of any active galactic nucleus activity. We find that the optical, IR and radio properties of NGC 6810 are all consistent with a starburst galaxy, and that the old classification of this galaxy as a Seyfert 2 galaxy is probably incorrect.
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