Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-06-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
39 pages including 14 figures, to appear in the Oct 2002 issue of AJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/342546
The HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS) is a blind 21-cm survey for extragalactic neutral hydrogen, covering the whole southern sky. The HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog (BGC; Koribalski et al. 2002) is a subset of HIPASS and contains the 1000 HI-brightest (peak flux density) galaxies. Here we present the 138 HIPASS BGC galaxies, which had no redshift measured prior to the Parkes multibeam HI surveys. Of the 138 galaxies, 87 are newly cataloged. Newly cataloged is defined as no optical (or infrared) counterpart in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. Using the Digitized Sky Survey we identify optical counterparts for almost half of the newly cataloged galaxies, which are typically of irregular or magellanic morphological type. Several HI sources appear to be associated with compact groups or pairs of galaxies rather than an individual galaxy. The majority (57) of the newly cataloged galaxies lie within ten degrees of the Galactic Plane and are missing from optical surveys due to confusion with stars or dust extinction. This sample also includes newly cataloged galaxies first discovered in the HI shallow survey of the Zone-of-Avoidance (Henning et al. 2000). The other 30 newly cataloged galaxies escaped detection due to their low surface brightness or optical compactness. Only one of these, HIPASS J0546-68, has no obvious optical counterpart as it is obscured by the Large Magellanic Cloud. We find that the newly cataloged galaxies with |b| > 10 are generally lower in HI mass and narrower in velocity width compared with the total HIPASS BGC. In contrast, newly cataloged galaxies behind the Milky Way are found to be statistically similar to the entire HIPASS BGC. In addition to these galaxies, the HIPASS BGC contains four previously unknown HI clouds.
Barnes David G.
de Blok J. G. W.
Jerjen Helmut
Kilborn Virginia A.
Koribalski Baerbel S.
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