Self-irradiated cooling condensations - The source of the optical line emission from cooling flows

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Sep 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990apj...360l..15v&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 360, Sept. 1, 1990, p. L15-L18.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

41

Cooling Flows (Astrophysics), Emission Spectra, Galactic Clusters, Optical Emission Spectroscopy, Condensation, H Alpha Line, Photographic Plates, Photoionization, X Rays

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The optical filaments seen at the centers of clusters of galaxies, which cannot be explained by standard photoionization or shock models, can be straightforwardly interpreted as self-irradiated cooling condensations. Fully developed (about 10,000 K) condensations embedded in thermally unstable 10 million K gas will be bathed in a powerful EUV/soft X-ray flux emanating from the surrounding condensing regions. The present models of the condensation/irradiation process give line ratios and luminosities similar to those observed. Because it is assumed that the condensations arise from linear perturbations, which grow significantly only when the local cooling time is less than the free-fall time, condensing regions of the type modeled here should arise only in cooling flows of central pressure less than about 1 billion ergs/cu cm and should extend only over the inner regions of the cluster.

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