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Discovery Of Atomic And Molecular Mid-Infrared Emission Lines In Off-Nuclear Regions Of Ngc 1275 And Ngc 4696 With The Spitzer Space Telescope, R. M. Johnstone, N. A. Hatch, Gary J. Ferland, A. C. Fabian, C. S. Crawford, R. J. Wilman
Discovery Of Atomic And Molecular Mid-Infrared Emission Lines In Off-Nuclear Regions Of Ngc 1275 And Ngc 4696 With The Spitzer Space Telescope, R. M. Johnstone, N. A. Hatch, Gary J. Ferland, A. C. Fabian, C. S. Crawford, R. J. Wilman
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We present Spitzer high-resolution spectra of off-nuclear regions in the central cluster galaxies NGC 1275 and NGC 4696 in the Perseus and Centaurus clusters, respectively. Both objects are surrounded by extensive optical emission-line filamentary nebulae, bright outer parts of which are the targets of our observations. The 10–37 μm spectra show strong pure-rotational lines from molecular hydrogen revealing a molecular component to the filaments which has an excitation temperature of ∼300−400 K. The flux in the 0−0 S(1) molecular hydrogen line correlates well with the strength of the optical lines, having about 3 per cent of the Hα+[N II] emission. …