Optical IFU Observations of the Brightest Cluster Galaxy NGC 4696: The Case for a Minor Merger and Shock-excited Filaments

Farage, Catherine
McGregor, Peter
Dopita, Michael
Bicknell, Geoffrey

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Publication date

February 2016

DOI

10.1088/0004-637X/724/1/267

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Journal

The Astrophysical Journal

Abstract

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 telesco