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Properties of Dust in Giant Elliptical Galaxies: The rôle of the Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Paul Goudfrooij
Paul Goudfrooij*
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A.

Abstract

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The properties of dust in giant elliptical galaxies are reviewed, with particular emphasis on the influence of the environment.

After normalizing by the optical luminosities, a strong anticorrelation between the masses of dust and hot gas in X-ray bright ellipticals is found. Furthermore, large-scale, regularly-shaped dust lanes (which are symmetric with respect to the galaxy nucleus) are only found to be present in ellipticals with the lowest ratios of the mass of hot gas to the blue luminosity (Mhot/LB ≲ 0.04 in solar units). This can be explained by the short time scale for the destruction of dust grains within the hot, X-ray- emitting gas compared to the formation timescale of such dust lanes in early-type galaxies.

Dust within ellipticals in “loose” environments (i.e. in the field or in loose groups) is typically characterized by small values of RV ≡ AV/EB−V (i-e. small characteristic grain sizes), and distributed in dust lanes with a smooth, relaxed morphology. On the other hand, dust in ellipticals that are in or near the center of dense groups or clusters is typically much more irregularly distributed, and characterized by RV values that are close to the Galactic one.

I predict that ellipticals containing “relaxed” dust lanes with typical dust masses of 106 − 107M⊙ do not contain hot, X-ray-emitting gas.

Type
Part 2. Properties of Small Groups
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 174: Small Galaxy Groups , 2000 , pp. 74 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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