Intergalactic HI in the NGC5018 group

Details Intergalactic HI in the NGC5018 group Intergalactic HI in the NGC5018 group

Jul 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990nascp3084...26g&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Ames Research Center, The Interstellar Medium in External Galaxies: Summaries of Contributed Papers p 26-28 (SEE N91-14

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Cosmic Dust, Elliptical Galaxies, Galactic Clusters, Intergalactic Media, Neutral Gases, Cold Gas, Gas Detectors, Infrared Astronomy Satellite, Infrared Radiation, Very Large Array (Vla)

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The cold interstellar and intergalactic medium is in the small group of galaxies whose brightest member is the elliptical galaxy NGC5018. Researchers' attention was first drawn to this galaxy as possibly containing cold interstellar gas by the detection by the Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) of emission at lambda 60 microns and lambda 100 microns at an intensity of about 1 Jy (Knapp et al. 1989), which is relatively strong for an elliptical (Jura et al. 1987). These data showed that the temperature of the infrared emission is less than 30K and that its likely source is therefore interstellar dust. A preliminary search for neutral hydrogen (HI) emission from this galaxy using the Very Large Array (VLA) showed that there appears to be HI flowing between NGC5018 and the nearby Sc galaxy NGC5022 (Kim et al. 1988). Since NGC5018 has a well-developed system of optical shells (cf. Malin and Carter 1983; Schweizer 1987) this observation suggests that NGC5018 may be in the process of forming its shell system by the merger of a cold stellar system with the elliptical, as suggested by Quinn (1984). Researchers describe follow-up HI observations of improved sensitivity and spatial resolution, and confirm that HI is flowing between NCG5022 and NGC5018, and around NGC5018. The data show, however, that the HI bridge actually connects NGC5022 and another spiral in the group, MCG03-34-013, both spatially and in radial velocity, and that in doing so it flows through and around NGC5018, which lies between the spiral galaxies. This is shown by the total HI map, with the optical positions of the above three galaxies labelled.

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