A 15 Kiloparsec X‐Ray Disk in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1700
A 15 Kiloparsec X‐Ray Disk in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1700
We present Chandra observations of the young elliptical galaxy NGC 1700. The X-ray isophotes are highly flattened between semimajor axes of 30 and 80 arcseconds, reaching a maximum ellipticity of approximately 0.65 at 60 arcsec (15 kpc). The surface brightness profile in the spectrally soft, flattened region is shallower than …