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On star formation in cooling flows of clusters of galaxies
Author(s) -
Schmidt K.H.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.2113120303
Subject(s) - physics , astrophysics , galaxy , stars , star formation , star cluster , galaxy groups and clusters , galaxy cluster , stellar mass , initial mass function , astronomy
A correlation between the masses of cooling flows in clusters of galaxies and the absolute magnitudes of the central parts of the brightest galaxies of the clusters is detected. This correlation is consistent with star formation in the cooling flows according to an initial mass function of stars truncated at stellar masses corresponding to absolute magnitudes in the most probable cases between +7 and +2.