Conduction and the star formation threshold in brightest cluster galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 681, Issue 1 PART 2, 2008, Pages

  Voit, G M ^a   Cavagnolo, K W ^a   Donahue, M ^a   Rafferty, D A ^b   McNamara, B R ^c,d,e   Nulsen, P E J ^e  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling flows; Galaxies: Clusters: General; Galaxies: Elliptical and lenticular, cd x rays: Galaxies: Clusters

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349152275     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590344     Document Type: Article

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