Pauline Barmby et al. 2009 The Astronomical Journal 137 207 doi:10.1088/0004-6256/137/1/207
A SPITZER SEARCH FOR COLD DUST WITHIN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS
FREE ISSUEPauline Barmby1,2, Martha L. Boyer3, Charles E. Woodward3, Robert D. Gehrz3, Jacco Th. van Loon4, Giovanni G. Fazio2, Massimo Marengo2 and Elisha Polomski5
Show affiliationsGlobular cluster (GC) stars evolving off the main sequence are known to lose mass, and it is expected that some of the lost material should remain within the cluster as an intracluster medium (ICM). Most attempts to detect such an ICM have been unsuccessful. The Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer on the Spitzer Space Telescope was used to observe eight Galactic GCs in an attempt to detect the thermal emission from ICM dust. Most clusters do not have significant detections at 70 μm; one cluster, NGC 6341, has tentative evidence for the presence of dust, but 90 μm observations do not confirm the detection. Individual 70 μm point sources which appear in several of the cluster images are likely to be background galaxies. The inferred dust mass and upper limits are less than 4 × 10–4 M 
, well below expectations for cluster dust production from mass loss in red and asymptotic giant branch stars. This implies that either GC dust production is less efficient, or that ICM removal or dust destruction is more efficient, than previously believed. We explore several possibilities for ICM removal and conclude that present data do not yet permit us to distinguish between them.
- Keywords
globular clusters: general; globular clusters: individual (NGC 104, NGC 362, NGC 1851, NGC 5272, NGC 5904, NGC 6205, NGC 6341, NGC 6752); infrared: stars; stars: mass loss
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Issue 1 (2009 January)
Received 2008 June 5, accepted for publication 2008 October 8
Published 2008 December 10
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A Spitzer Search for Cold Dust Within Globular Clusters
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