Comments on the IIA NS5-brane

We study N coincident IIA NS5-branes at large N using supergravity. We show that the absorption cross section for gravitons in this background does no t vanish at zero string coupling for energies larger than m(s)/root N (m(s) is the string scale). Using a holographic description of the intrinsic the ory of the IIA NS5-branes, we find an expression for the two point function of the stress energy tensor, and comment on its structure.