A search for cold dust in clusters of galaxies with cooling flows

We report a submillimetre-wavelength search for thermal emission from cold dust in the centres of rich clusters of galaxies with cooling flows. No convincing example of emission by dust is found in the 11 clusters surveyed. The upper limits to the dust mass are of order $${10}^{8}\text {M}_{\odot}$$. The corresponding limits to the mass of cold gas are of order $${10}^{10}\text {M}_{\odot}$$, assuming the Galactic ratio of gas to dust mass.