Is there molecular gas in the H I cloud between NGC 4472 and UGC 7636?

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dc.contributor.authorIrwin, JA
dc.contributor.authorFrayer, DT
dc.contributor.authorSarazin, CL
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Toronto
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-21T20:08:25Z
dc.date.available2018-09-21T20:08:25Z
dc.date.issued1997-05
dc.description.abstractWe present CO observations of the H I cloud located between the Virgo elliptical galaxy NGC 4472 and its dwarf irregular companion galaxy UGC 7636. ROSAT observations of the X-ray halo of NGC 4472 show a hole in the X-ray emission at the position of the H I cloud (Irwin gi Sarazin 1996), If the hole is assumed to be the result of soft X-ray absorption by some absorbing material within the cloud, the total implied mass of the absorbing material is much larger than the measured H I mass of the cloud, This implies that a large fraction of the cloud is composed of molecular hydrogen. However, the CO observations fail to find the required amount of molecular gas if a Galactic CO-to-H-2 conversion factor is assumed. While a low density in the molecular gas might increase the CO-to-H-2 conversion factor enough to make the CO upper limit consistent with the X-ray absorption prediction too low a density would allow the H-2 to be dissociated by UV radiation. We conclude that it is unlikely that the required absorbing mass is present. In any case, these observations provide a strict upper limit on the CO content of the H I cloud. (C) 1997 American Astronomical Society.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationIrwin, J., Frayer, D., Sarazin, C. (1997): Is There Molecular Gas in the H 1 Cloud Between NGC 4472 and UGC 7636? The Astronomical Journal, 113(5). DOI: 10.1086/118375
dc.identifier.doi10.1086/118375
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/3929
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Institute of Physics
dc.subjectGIANT ELLIPTIC GALAXY
dc.subjectNGC-4472
dc.subjectUGC-7636
dc.subjectMODELS
dc.subjectAstronomy & Astrophysics
dc.titleIs there molecular gas in the H I cloud between NGC 4472 and UGC 7636?en_US
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