LWS OBSERVATIONS OF THE COLLIDING GALAXIES NGC-4038 39/

Authors
FISCHER J SHIER LM LUHMAN ML SATYAPAL S SMITH HA STACEY GJ UNGER SJ GREENHOUSE MA SPINOGLIO L MALKAN MA LORD SD MILES JW SHURE MA CLEGG PE ADE PAR ARMAND C BURGDORF M CHURCH SE DAVIS GR DIGIORGIO A EWART D FURNISS I GLENCROSS WM GRY C LIM T MOLINARI S NGUYENRIEU Q PRICE MC SIDHER SD SMITH A SWINYARD BM TEXIER D TRAMS NR WOLFIRE MG
Citation
J. Fischer et al., LWS OBSERVATIONS OF THE COLLIDING GALAXIES NGC-4038 39/, Astronomy and astrophysics, 315(2), 1996, pp. 97-100
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Astronomy and astrophysics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00046361
Volume
315
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
97 - 100
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-6361(1996)315:2<97:LOOTCG>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) Long Wavelength Spectrometer (LWS) an d ground-based Fabry-Perot imaging spectroscopic observations are used to penetrate the extinction to the powerful burst of star formation t hat has occurred in the extranuclear molecular cloud complex in the ga laxy overlap region of the galaxies NGC 4038/39 (''The Antennae''). Pa rameters of the starburst and typical molecular cloud core characteris tics are derived. It is found that the starburst can power the infrare d luminosity of this galaxy system.