Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 704, Issue 1, Pages L20-L24Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/704/1/L20
Keywords
conduction; galaxies: individual (M87); galaxies: ISM
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- NASA [GO-11681, AR-11283, NAS526555]
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Gas at intermediate temperatures between the hot X-ray-emitting coronal gas in galaxies at the centers of galaxy clusters and the much cooler optical line emitting filaments yields information on transport processes and plausible scenarios for the relationship between X-ray cool cores and other galactic phenomena such as mergers or the onset of an active galactic nucleus. Hitherto, detection of intermediate temperature gas has proven elusive. Here, we present FUV imaging of the low excitation emission filaments of M87 and show strong evidence for the presence of C IV 1549 angstrom emission which arises in gas at temperature similar to 10(5) K co-located with H alpha+[N II] emission from cooler similar to 10(4) K gas. We infer that the hot and cool phases are in thermal communication, and show that quantitatively the emission strength is consistent with thermal conduction, which in turn may account for many of the observed characteristics of cool-core galaxy clusters.
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