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Preliminary results are given for a program to measure color gradients in the central galaxies in clusters with a variety of cooling flow rates. The objectives are to search for extended blue continuum regions indicative of star formation, to study the spatial distribution of star formation, and to make a quantitative measure of the amount of light from young stars, which can lead to a measure of the star formation rate (for an assumed intial mass function). Four clusters with large Ṁs and large cluster Hα emission fluxes are found to have an excess of blue light concentrated to the centers of the cluster central galaxy. Assumption of a disk IMF leads to the conclusion that the starlight might play a major role in ionizing the emission line gas in these clusters.
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Romanishin, W. (1988). Color Gradients in Cooling Flow Cluster Central Galaxies and the Ionization of Cluster Emission Line Systems. In: Fabian, A.C. (eds) Cooling Flows in Clusters and Galaxies. NATO ASI Series, vol 229. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2953-1_13
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