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The Per-Tau Shell: A Giant Star-forming Spherical Shell Revealed by 3D Dust Observations

  • Authors: Shmuel Bialy, Catherine Zucker, Alyssa Goodman, Michael M. Foley, João Alves, Vadim A. Semenov, Robert Benjamin, Reimar Leike, and Torsten Enßlin

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 919 L5.

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Caption: Figure 7.

eROSITA’s soft X-ray image of the Per-Tau region (originally published online). The RGB colors correspond to X-ray energies, from 0.2 keV (red) to 2.3 keV (blue). The green oval is the projected Per-Tau shell outline (the distorted shape is a result of the Aitoff map projection of eROSITA’s all-sky map). The red oval within the Per-Tau shell, highlights a region of enhanced X-ray emission, which is also seen in the ROSAT X-ray data (see Figure 4 panels(e)–(f)).

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