Mid-IR colors and star formation in Virgo and Coma galaxies.

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Aug 1997

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.324, p.L13-L16

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Galaxies: General, Galaxies: Ism, Galaxies: Spiral, Infrared: Galaxies, Infrared: Ism: Continuum

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We present observations of the global emission of a sample of spiral and irregular galaxies in the Virgo cluster and the Coma supercluster. These observations have been made with the camera ISOCAM on board the Infrared Space Observatory, through two broad filters centered respectively at 6.75 and 15.0μm. The corresponding fluxes are corrected for the stellar contribution in order to obtain the pure interstellar contribution; the stellar contribution is estimated from the near-infrared fluxes using as template some S0 and elliptical galaxies observed by chance in the ISO fields. The fluxes at 6.75 and 15.0μm are then normalized to the stellar mass of the galaxy, and compared to the normalized far-UV fluxes at 2000Å which are good indicators of the star-formation rate (SFR). We find that, while the mid-IR fluxes are proportional to the SFR when it is not too large, the galaxies with a high SFR have relatively less emission at 6.75 and 15μm. It appears that the carriers of the Unidentified Infrared Bands which are responsible for almost all the emission at 6.75μm and for a part of the emission at 15μm have different properties in these galaxies or are partly destructed by the UV field. At 15μm, there is a contribution of very small, three-dimensional grains in galaxies with a high SFR.

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