NGC 839: Shocks in an M82-like Superwind

Rich, Jeff; Dopita, Michael; Kewley, Lisa; Rupke, D S N

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NGC 839: Shocks in an M82-like Superwind

Date

2010

Authors

Rich, Jeff

Dopita, Michael

Kewley, Lisa

Rupke, D S N

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present observations of NGC 839 made with the Wide Field Spectrograph on the ANU 2.3 m telescope. Our data cover a region 25′×60′ at a spatial resolution of ∼1.′5. The long axis of the field is aligned with the superwind we have discovered in