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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 396, 期 4, 页码 1953-1971出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14897.x
关键词
stars: formation; galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: clusters: individual: A1060; cooling flows; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: stellar content
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Universite Laval and le Fonds quebecois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies
- Spanish PNAYA [AYA2007-67965-C03-03]
We present integral field spectroscopy of the nebular line emission in a sample of nine brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs). The sample was chosen to probe both cooling flow and non-cooling flow clusters, as well as a range of cluster X-ray luminosities. The line emission morphology and velocity gradients suggest a great diversity in the properties of the line emitting gas. While some BCGs show evidence for filamentary or patchy emission (Abell 1060, Abell 1668 and MKW 3s), others have extended emission (Abell 1204, Abell 2199), while still others have centrally concentrated emission (Abell 2052). We examine diagnostic line ratios to determine the dominant ionization mechanisms in each galaxy. Most of the galaxies show regions with active galactic nucleus like spectra, however, for two BCGs, Abell 1060 and Abell 1204, the emission line diagnostics suggest regions which can be described by the emission from young stellar populations. The diversity of emission-line properties in our sample of BCGs suggests that the emission mechanism is not universal, with different ionization processes dominating different systems. Given this diversity, there is no evidence for a clear distinction of the emission-line properties between cooling flow and non-cooling flow BCGs. It is not always cooling flow BCGs which show emission (or young stellar populations), and non-cooling flow BCGs which do not.
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