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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2017
The infrared emission in galaxies is strongly connected to star burst processes, while emission from the intergalactic medium results mainly from dust heated by other luminosity sources. The Virgo cluster provides an extensive region in which the properties of such infrared emission can be studied. Galaxies in the Virgo cluster with dust temperatures of 40 K and masses of dust as small as about 5 × 104M⊙ are detectable at the limit of the IRAS survey (Soifer et al., 1987). The IRAS observations of 196 optically selected galaxies in the Virgo cluster have been studied by Helou et al. (Helou et al., 1988; see also Leggett et al., 1988).