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Probing the circumnuclear environment of NGC 1275 with high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy

Fabian, Andrew C.; Fukazawa, Yasushi; Veilleux, Sylvain +6 more

NGC 1275 is the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in the Perseus cluster and hosts the active galactic nucleus (AGN) that is heating the central 100 kpc of the intracluster medium atmosphere via a regulated feedback loop. Here, we use a deep (490 ks) Cycle-19 Chandra High-Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) observation of NGC 1275 to study the anatomy…