The mid-IR view of interacting galaxies

Citation
V. Charmandaris et al., The mid-IR view of interacting galaxies, ASTRO SP SC, 266(1-2), 1999, pp. 99-104
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE
ISSN journal
0004640X → ACNP
Volume
266
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
99 - 104
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-640X(1999)266:1-2<99:TMVOIG>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
In this paper, we present ISOCAM mid-IR broad band images and spectra of th ree well known interacting galaxies. These are the prototypical ultralumino us IR galaxy Arp 220, and NGC 6240, which are classified as major mergers r esulting from a collision of two disk galaxies of approximately equal mass, and the prime example of collisional ring galaxies, the Cartwheel. Our observations provide a new powerful tool and shed some more light to th e properties of the hot dust and star formation in interacting galaxies.