Ripping apart at the seams: the network of stripped gas surrounding M86

We present a new study of the Virgo Cluster galaxies M86, M84, NGC 4338 and NGC 4438 using a mosaic of five separate pointings with XMM–Newton. Our observations allow for robust measurements of the temperature and metallicity structure of each galaxy along with the entire ∼1° region between these galaxies. When combined with multiwavelength observations, the data suggest that all four of these gal...