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Material in the Vicinity of Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Bernard F. Burke
Bernard F. Burke*
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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It is increasingly certain that the principal concentrations of neutral hydrogen gas are in spiral and irregular galaxies. The intergalactic medium (IGM) appears to be either a near-void with <ρ> ≲ 1.5 × 10−11 cm−3 from the 3C9 measurements of Gunn and Peterson (1965) or at best a hot, highly ionized gas with very little neutral hydrogen present (Field and Perrenod, 1977). In clusters of galaxies, the intracluster medium (ICM) also appears to be mostly hot and ionized, as suggested by X-ray observations (Jones et al. 1977) and by observations of head-tail radio galaxies. Even if most of the IGM and ICM were ionized, however, one might imagine that there exist high-density concentrations where the cooling rate is sufficient to allow recombination, particularly in the vicinity of galaxies. One might expect such condensations to be revealed either by 21-cm emission, or by absorption against a bright background continuum source.

Type
V: The Outskirts of Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 77: Structure and Properties of Nearby Galaxies , 1978 , pp. 287 - 292
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1978 

References

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