Optical IFU Observations of the Brightest Cluster Galaxy NGC 4696: The Case for a Minor Merger and Shock-excited Filaments
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2010
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Farage, Catherine
McGregor, Peter
Dopita, Michael
Bicknell, Geoffrey
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IOP Publishing
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We present deep optical integral-field spectroscopic observations of the nearby (z ∼ 0.01) brightest cluster galaxy NGC 4696 in the core of the Centaurus Cluster, made with the Wide Field Spectrograph on the Australian National University 2.3 m telescop
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Keywords: Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: individual (NGC 4696); Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: ISM; Shock waves; Techniques: imaging spectroscopy
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Astrophysical Journal, The
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