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An X-ray halo in the ``hot-spot'' galaxy NGC 2903
In this paper we present ROSAT PSPC and HRI observations of the``hot-spot'' galaxy NGC 2903. This isolated system strikingly reveals asoft extended X-ray feature reaching in north-west direction up to aprojected distance of 5.2 kpc from the center into the halo. Theresidual X-ray emission in the disk reveals the same extension as theHα disk. No eastern counterpart of the western X-ray haloemission has been detected. The luminosity of the extraplanar X-ray gasis several 1038 erg s-1, comparable to X-ray halosin other starburst galaxies. It has a plasma temperature of about 0.2keV. The estimated star formation rate derived from X-rays and Hαresults in 1-2 M_sun yr-1. Since galactic superwinds, giantkpc-scale galactic outflows, seem to be a common phenomenon observed ina number of edge-on galaxies, especially in the X-ray regime, and areproduced by excess star-formation activity, the existence of hot halogas as found in NGC 2903 can be attributed to events such as centralstarbursts. That such a starburst has taken place in NGC 2903 must beproven. The detection of hot gas above galaxy disks also withintermediate inclination, however, encounters the difficulty ofdiscriminating between that contribution from disk and active nuclearregion.
| A spectroscopic survey for lambda Bootis stars. II. The observational data
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| Constellation: | Lion |
| Right ascension: | 09h30m46.69s |
| Declination: | +21°02'14.8" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.807 |
| Proper motion RA: | -18.1 |
| Proper motion Dec: | 34.3 |
| B-T magnitude: | 9.191 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.839 |
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