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09 February 2025
 
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Far-Infrared Emission from Intracluster Dust in Abell Clusters
M. Stickel ; U. Klaas ; D. Lemke ; K. Mattila ;
Date 4 Dec 2001
Subject astro-ph
Affiliation Max Planck Institut fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg; Helsinki University Observatory
AbstractThe ISOPHOT instrument aboard ISO has been used to observe extended FIR emission of six Abell clusters. The raw profiles of the I_(120 um) / I_(180 um) surface brightness ratio including zodiacal light show a bump towards Abell 1656 (Coma), dips towards Abell 262 and Abell 2670, and are without clear structure towards Abell 400, Abell 496, and Abell 4038. After subtraction of the zodiacal light, the bump towards Abell 1656 is still present, while the dips towards Abell 262 and Abell 2670 are no longer noticable. This indicates a localized excess of emitting material outside the Galaxy towards Abell 1656, while the behavior in Abell 262 and Abell 2670 can be reconciled with galactic cirrus structures localized on the line-of-sight to these clusters. The excess towards Abell 1656 (Coma) is interpreted as thermal emission from intracluster dust distributed in the hot X-ray emitting intracluster medium. The absence of any signature for intracluster dust in five clusters and the rather low inferred dust mass in Abell 1656 indicates that intracluster dust is likely not responsible for the excess X-ray absorption seen in cooling flow clusters. These observations thereby represent a further unsuccessful attempt in detecting the presumed final stage of the cooling flow material, in accord with quite a number of previous studies in other wavelengths regions. Finally, the observed dimming of the high-redshift supernovae is unlikely be attributable to extinction caused by dust in the intracluster or even a presumed intercluster medium.
Source arXiv, astro-ph/0112063
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