{"paper":{"title":"H2 formation and excitation in the Stephan's Quintet galaxy-wide collision","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.CO","authors_text":"F. Boulanger, G. Pineau des Forets, P. Guillard, P.N. Appleton","submitted_at":"2009-04-27T19:24:04Z","abstract_excerpt":"Context. The Spitzer Space Telescope has detected a powerful (L(H2)~10^41 erg s-1) mid-infrared H2 emission towards the galaxy-wide collision in the Stephan's Quintet (SQ) galaxy group. This discovery was followed by the detection of more distant H2-luminous extragalactic sources, with almost no spectroscopic signatures of star formation. These observations set molecular gas in a new context where one has to describe its role as a cooling agent of energetic phases of galaxy evolution. Aims. The SQ postshock medium is observed to be multiphase, with H2 gas coexisting with a hot (~ 5 10^6 K), X-"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"0904.4239","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}