The dust morphology of the elliptical Galaxy M 86 with SPIRE
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Gomez, H.L.
Baes, M.
Cortese, L.
Smith, M. W. L.
Boselli, A.
Ciesla, L.
Bendo, G. J.
Pohlen, M.
di Serego Alighieri, S.
Auld, R.
Barlow, M.J.
Bock, J. J.
Bradford, M.
Buat, V.
Castro-Rodriguez, N.
Chanial, P.
Charlot, S.
Clements, D. L.
Cooray, A.
Cormier, D.
Davies, J. I.
Dwek, E.
Eales, S.
Elbaz, D.
Galametz, M.
Galliano, F.
Gear, W.K.
Glenn, J.
Griffin, M.
Hony, S.
Isaak, K.G.
Levenson, L. R.
Lu, N.
Madden, S.
O'Halloran, B.
Okumura, K.
Oliver, S.
Page, M.J.
Panuzzo, P.
Papageorgiou, A.
Parkin, T.J.
Perez-Fournon, I.
Rangwala, N.
Rigby, E. E.
Roussel, H.
Rykala, A.
Sacchi, N.
Sauvage, M.
Schirm, M. R. P.
Schulz, B.
Spinoglio, L.
Srinivasan, S.
Stevens, Jason
Symeonidis, M.
Trichas, M.
Vaccari, M.
Vigroux, L.
Wilson, C.D.
Wozniak, H.
Wright, G.S.
Zeilinger, W.W.
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2299/7854
Abstract
We present Herschel-SPIRE observations at 250–500 μm of the giant elliptical galaxy M 86 and examine the distribution of the resolved cold dust emission and its relation with other galactic tracers. The SPIRE images reveal three dust components: emission from the central region; a dust lane extending north-south; and a bright emission feature 10 kpc to the south-east. We estimate that ~106 M ? of dust is spatially coincident with atomic and ionized hydrogen, originating from stripped material from the nearby spiral NGC 4438 due to recent tidal interactions with M 86. The gas-to-dust ratio of the cold gas component ranges from ~20–80. We discuss the different heating mechanisms for the dust features.