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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 652, 期 1, 页码 L17-L20出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/509915
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cooling flows; galaxies : clusters : general; X-rays : galaxies; X-rays : galaxies : clusters
Optically similar elliptical galaxies have an enormous range of X-ray luminosities. We show that this range can be attributed to large variations in the dark halo mass M-vir determined from X-ray observations. The K-band luminosity of ellipticals varies with virial mass, L-K proportional to M-vir(0.75 +/- 0.22) but with considerable scatter, probably due to the stochastic incidence of massive satellite galaxies that merge by dynamical friction to form group-centered ellipticals. Both the observed X-ray luminosity L-X proportional to M-vir(2.4) and L-X/L-K proportional to M-vir(1.6) are sufficiently sensitive to the virial mass to explain the wide variation observed in among galaxies of similar. The central galaxy supernova energy per particle of diffuse gas increases dramatically with decreasing virial mass, and elliptical galaxies with the lowest X-ray luminosities (and M-vir) are easily explained by supernova-driven outflows.
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