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A faint, but extensive component of broad-line ionized gas has been discovered in the peculiar giant elliptical galaxy NGC5128. This component has a radically different spatial distribution from the well-studied rotating photoionized gas associated with the dust lane although the velocity fields of the two components are similar. The origin of the broad-line gas is considered and its possible relation to the active nucleus and the X-ray jet discussed.
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Phillips, M., Taylor, K., Axon, D. et al. Broad-line high-excitation gas in the elliptical galaxy NGC5128. Nature 310, 554–557 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/310554a0
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