H2 molecules and cold clouds in cooling flow clusters

1999/11/23 by L. Grenacher, Grenacher, L., Ph. Jetzer +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9911438

Poster presented at the International Conference "H2 in Space", IAP-Paris (France), September 18th-October 1st, 1999

arxiv created 1999/11/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We investigated the cooling mechanism due to H2 and HD molecules in order to determine the minimum temperature achievable by cold H2-HD clouds in cooling flow clusters.

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