Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-12-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Conference proceedings, a contributed paper in proceedings for the Monster's Fiery Breath: Feedback in Clusters, Groups, and G
Scientific paper
I discuss and review recent studies of the signatures of activity in brightest cluster galaxies. Mid-IR spectra appear to show indications of star formation in a sample of 9 BCGs from de Messieres et al. (2009). Other processes like cosmic ray heating and conduction may play a role. The incidence of emission-line BCGs in X-ray selected clusters is higher than in optically-selected clusters, and higher still in systems known to be cool cores. We report early results of a UV and H-alpha survey of the BCGs in the REXCESS sample, which reveals that this sample has an interestingly low number of emission-line or UV excess systems. [Note added post facto: fainter emission-line sources discovered this summer increasses the rate to 22%.]
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