Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990nascp3098..393h&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Paired and Interacting Galaxies: International Astronomical Union Colloquium No. 124 p 39
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Charge Coupled Devices, Cosmic Dust, Elliptical Galaxies, Galactic Evolution, Imaging Techniques, Infrared Astronomy Satellite, Interacting Galaxies, Nuclear Reactions, Amorphous Materials, Energy Distribution, Far Infrared Radiation, Line Spectra
Scientific paper
The authors present charge coupled device (CCD) imaging results of their sample of Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) galaxies with spectral energy distributions peaking at 60 microns (Vader et al 1988). The results support the author's suggestion that the activity in 60 micron peaking galaxies is centrally concentrated, and represents an early stage of dust-embedded nuclear activity. This activity is probably triggered by a recent interaction/merger event as indicated by their peculiar optical morphologies. The authors propose that 60 micron peakers are the precursors of SO's in the case of amorphous systems, and ellipticals in the case of interacting galaxies.
Frogel Jay. A.
Heisler Charlene Anne
Vader Patricia J.
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