Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995apj...439..185l&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 439, no. 1, p. 185-190
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Cooling Flows (Astrophysics), Elliptical Galaxies, Infrared Astronomy, Infrared Spectra, Spatial Distribution, Cosmic Dust, Data Reduction, Flux Density, Infrared Photometry, Interacting Galaxies, Point Sources, Star Formation
Scientific paper
Measurements of the spatial distribution of 100 micrometers emission are presented for NGC 1275, the central galaxy in the Perseus cluster. The emission is clearly resolved on a kiloparsec level, and has the same flux density as seen by IRAS at an epoch when the nonthermal emission was a factor of 10 higher. This emission which traces the greater part of the luminosity of this galaxy, is thus identified as thermal emission from dust. The emission appears to be distributed more nearly like the low-velocity H-alpha filaments in the core of this galaxy than the starlight, extended nonthermal radio, X-ray emission, or high velocity gas. While the dust might be heated by a star-formation region that is fed by the cooling flow in this cluster, the intracluster gas also appears to be energetically capable of this as well, in which case the dust would be, at least at the present time, the dominant cooling mechanism for the hot gas. The large quantity of dust in NGC 1275 is unlikely to have been created within the galaxy, or in the cooling flow, but was probably accreted from a recent galactic interloper.
Doppmann Greg W.
Gaffney Niall I.
Harvey Paul Michael
Lester Dan F.
Malkan Matthew
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