Huge amount of gas and dust in the “Taffy” galaxy bridge

M. Zhu; Y. Gao; E.R. Seaquist; L. Dunne

doi:10.1051/eas:2007042

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Volume 24 (2007)

EAS Publications Series, 24 (2007) 289-290

Abstract

Issue		EAS Publications Series Volume 24, 2007 CRAL-2006. Chemodynamics: From First Stars to Local Galaxies


Page(s)		289 - 290
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2007042
Published online		21 April 2007

CRAL-2006. Chemodynamics: From First Stars to Local Galaxies
E. Emsellem, H. Wozniak, G. Massacrier, J.-F. Gonzalez, J. Devriendt and N. Champavert (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 24 (2007) 289-290

Huge amount of gas and dust in the “Taffy” galaxy bridge

M. Zhu¹, Y. Gao², E.R. Seaquist³ and L. Dunne⁴

¹ Joint Astronomy Centre/National Research Council Canada, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
² Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjing, China
³ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Canada
⁴ School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham University, UK

Abstract

We present a comprehensive study of the gas/dust properties in UGC 12914/15 using SCUBA and CO(3–2) data from the JCMT.