Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992apj...388..301c&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 388, April 1, 1992, p. 301-309.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
41
Cooling Flows (Astrophysics), Emission Spectra, Faint Objects, Interacting Galaxies, Red Shift, Seyfert Galaxies, Fabry-Perot Spectrometers, H Alpha Line
Scientific paper
The Fabry-Perot imager is used to obtain a velocity sequence of calibrated narrow-band CCD images to cover 3000 km/s velocity space between the redshifted H-alpha emission lines of NGC 1275, its extended associated system of low-velocity (LV) filaments, and the high-velocity (HV) system of knots, projected on the same line of sight in the sky. The lack of intermediate-velocity emission-line gas between the two systems leads to an upper limit of 1.5 x 10 exp -16 ergs/sq cm s sq arcsec (3 sigma) on stripped ionized gas due to the dynamical interaction between NGC 1275 and its HV companion galaxy. It also confirms previous reports that the level of continuum light arising from stellar and nonstellar sources must be very low in otherwise bright, strongly concentrated emission-line knots with unresolved diameters of 425/h pc. The H-alpha luminosities of the emission-line regions of the two systems were measured and star formation rates derived in order to investigate quantitatively the physical relation between the HV galaxy, NGC 1275, and the surrounding cooling flow filaments.
Brown Larry W.
Caulet Adeline
Gull Theodore R.
Hintzen Paul
Lowenthal James D.
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