Dissecting the Extended X-ray Emission in the Merging Pair NGC 6240

A. Paggi, G. Fabbiano, E. Nardini +3

We present a detailed spectral and imaging analysis of the central $15^{\prime \prime }$ radius ($\sim 7.5\text{ kpc}$) region of the merger galaxy NGC 6240 that makes use of all the available \…