Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-11-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, TeX, EPS files enclosed. To be published in the Proceedings of the Second Stromlo Symposium, "The Nature of Elliptic
Scientific paper
Results from IRAS and recent X-ray and optical surveys are reviewed to discuss the properties and nature of the interstellar medium in elliptical galaxies. As to the dust component, there is a strong contrast with the situation among spiral galaxies in that masses of dust in ellipticals as derived from optical extinction are an order of magnitude LOWER than those derived from IRAS data. This dilemma can be resolved by assuming an extra, extended, diffusely distributed component of dust which is not detectable in optical data. Bona-fide global correlations among ISM components ---and between ionized gas, dust, and global (stellar) properties of ellipticals--- are hard to find, which most probably reflects an external origin of dust and ionized gas in ellipticals. A strong correlation is found, however, between the H-alpha+[NII] luminosity and the optical luminosity within the region occupied by the ionized gas, which suggests hot (post-AGB and/or blue HB) stars within the old stellar population being a dominant source of ionization of the gas.
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