Hot interstellar matter in elliptical galaxies
By: Dong-Woo Kim, Silvia Pellegrini, editors
Contributors: International Astronomical Union. General Assembly
Series: Astrophysics and space science library -- v. 378; Astrophysics and space science library -- v. 378.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781461405795; 9781461405801
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Elliptical galaxies; Interstellar matter
Notes: Outgrowth of the Joint Discussion between the Galaxies and ISM IAU divisions organized for the 27th IAU General Assembly of 2009 in Brazil. Cf. pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The hot ISM of elliptical galaxies : a brief history / Giuseppina Fabbiano; title: Hot gas flows on global and nuclear galactic scales / Silvia Pellegrini; title: Feedback and environmental effects in elliptical galaxies / Craig L. Sarazin; title: AGN feedback in elliptical galaxies : numerical simulations / Luca Ciotti and Jeremiah P. Ostriker; title: Metal abundances in the hot ISM of eliptical galaxies / Dong-Woo Kim; title: Abundances and abundance ratios in stars and hot gas in elliptical galaxies / Antonio Pipino; title: Hot gas morphology, thermal structure, and the AGN connection in normal elliptical galaxies / Thomas S. Statler; title: Dark matter in elliptical galaxies / David A. Buote and Philip J. Humphrey.