Journal article

H I deficiencies and asymmetries in HIPASS galaxies

TN Reynolds, T Westmeier, L Staveley-Smith

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Published : 2020

Abstract

We present an analysis of the sky distribution of neutral hydrogen (H I) deficiency and spectral asymmetry for galaxies detected by the H I Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS) as a function of projected environment density. Previous studies of galaxy H I deficiency using HIPASS were sensitive to galaxies that are extremely H I rich or poor. We use an updated binning statistic for measuring the global sky distribution of H I deficiency that is sensitive to the average deficiencies. Our analysis confirms the result from previous studies that galaxies residing in denser environments, such as Virgo, are on average more H I deficient than galaxies at lower densities. However, many other individual gro..

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

We thank S. Blythe and B. Holwerda for providing helpful comments. This research was conducted by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions, through project number CE170100013. The Parkes radio telescope is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility, which is funded by the Commonwealth of Australia for operation as a National Facility managed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSRIO). We acknowledge the usage of the HyperLEDA database (http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr).