Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-42gr6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T01:21:50.141Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Ionized Gas in Elliptical Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Elaine M. Sadler
Elaine M. Sadler*
Affiliation:
Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson AZ 85726

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

More than half of all nearby elliptical galaxies contain modest amounts (103 − 105 M⊙) of ionized gas. In bright elliptical galaxies this gas appears to lie in a rotating, kiloparsec-scale central disk, with a spectrum characteristic of non-thermal ionization. Low-luminosity ellipticals have a clumpy gas distribution and the gas in these galaxies is photoionized by young stars.

Type
Invited Reviews
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 127: Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies , 1987 , pp. 125 - 133
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

References

REFERENCES

Bertola, F., Bettoni, D., Rusconi, L. and Sedmak, G. 1984, Astron. J., 89, 356.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Biermann, P. and Kronberg, P. P. 1983, Astrophys. J., 268, L69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Caldwell, N., Kirshner, R. P. and Richstone, D. 1986, Astrophys. J., in press.Google Scholar
Demoulin-Ulrich, M.-H., Butcher, H. and Boksenberg, A. 1985, Astrophys. J. 285, 527.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fabian, A. C., Atherton, P. D., Taylor, K. and Nulsen, P. E. J. 1982, Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc., 201, 17P.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Filippenko, A. V. and Sargent, W. L. W. 1985, Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 57, 503.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Forman, W., Jones, C. and Tucker, W. 1985, Astrophys. J., 293, 102.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Heckman, T. M. 1980, Astron. Astrophys., 87, 152.Google Scholar
Jura, M. 1986, Astrophys. J., in press.Google Scholar
Knapp, G. R., Turner, E. L. and Cuniffe, P. E. 1985, Astron. J., 90, 454.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nulsen, P. E. J., Stewart, G. C. and Fabian, A. C. 1984, Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc., 208, 185.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Phillips, M. M., Jenkins, C. R, Dopita, M. A., Sadler, E. M. and Binette, L. 1986, Astron. J., 91, 1062.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sadler, E. M. 1984, Astron. J., 89, 23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tohline, J. E., Simonson, G. F. and Caldwell, N. 1982, Astrophys. J., 252, 92.CrossRefGoogle Scholar