We present an analysis of the properties of the hot interstellar medium (ISM)
in the merging pair of galaxies known as The Antennae (NGC 4038/39), performed
using the deep, coadded ~411 ks Chandra ACIS-S data set. These deep X-ray
observations and Chandra's high angular resolution allow us to investigate the
properties of the hot ISM with unprecedented spatial and spectral resolution.
Through a spatially resolved spectral analysis, we find a variety of
temperatures (from 0.2 to 0.7 keV) and Nh (from Galactic to 2x10^21 cm^-2).
Metal abundances for Ne, Mg, Si, and Fe vary dramatically throughout the ISM
from sub-solar values (~0.2) up to several times solar.Comment: 33 pages, 18 figures, revised version accepted by Astrophysical
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