Gas-rich Optically Inert Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

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Jan 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21714922k&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #149.22; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

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Aperture synthesis observations of two HI cloud complexes located in the periphery of the Virgo galaxy cluster are presented. These low HI-mass clouds (log(MHI) < 8 at 16.7 Mpc) are seen toward the western M region of Virgo, where the galaxy population is thought to lie behind the main A cluster surrounding M87. The kinematic measurements of both unresolved Arecibo and resolved VLA-C observations are in good agreement. The HI detections cannot be identified with any optical,IR, or UV emission from available archival imaging. They are inert at these wavelengths. The total dynamical mass estimates are several times their HI content. We report the observed parameters derived from the VLA observations. One of these detections appears to be the most isolated optically inert object observed in the outer reaches of Virgo.

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