MUSE sneaks a peek at extreme ram-pressure events - III. Tomography of UGC 6697, a massive galaxy falling into Abell 1367
(2017)
Journal Article
Consolandi, G., Gavazzi, G., Fossati, M., Fumagalli, M., Boselli, A., Yagi, M., & Yoshida, M. (2017). MUSE sneaks a peek at extreme ram-pressure events - III. Tomography of UGC 6697, a massive galaxy falling into Abell 1367. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 606, Article A83. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731218
We present the MUSE observations of UGC 6697, a giant (M∗ ≈ 1010M⊙) spiral galaxy infalling in the nearby cluster Abell 1367. During its high-velocity transit through the intracluster medium (ICM), the hydrodynamical interactions with the ICM produce... Read More about MUSE sneaks a peek at extreme ram-pressure events - III. Tomography of UGC 6697, a massive galaxy falling into Abell 1367.