The Large Scale Distribution of Neutral Hydrogen in the Fornax Region

Details The Large Scale Distribution of Neutral Hydrogen in the Fornax Region The Large Scale Distribution of Neutral Hydrogen in the Fornax Region

2002-10-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210170v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 337 (2002) 641

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 14 figures, 110 HI spectra. To be published in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05942.x

Using HIPASS data, we have searched for HI in a ~25x25 sq.deg. region centred on the Fornax cluster. Within a velocity search range of 300 - 3700 km/s and a lower flux limit of ~40 mJy, 110 galaxies with HI emission were detected, one of which is previously uncatalogued. None of the detections has early-type morphology. Previously unknown velocities for 14 galaxies have been determined, with a further 4 velocity measurements being significantly dissimilar to published values. Identification of an optical counterpart is relatively unambiguous for more than ~90% of our HI galaxies. The galaxies appear to be embedded in a sheet at the cluster velocity which extends for more than 30 deg across the search area. At the nominal cluster distance of ~20 Mpc, this corresponds to an elongated structure more than 10 Mpc in extent. A velocity gradient across the structure is detected, with radial velocities increasing by \~500 km/s from SE to NW. The clustering of galaxies evident in optical surveys is only weakly suggested in the spatial distribution of our HI detections. Our results suggest a considerable deficit of HI-rich galaxies in the centre of the cluster. However, relative to the field, there is a 3(+/-1)-fold excess of HI-rich galaxies in the outer parts of the cluster where galaxies may be infalling towards the cluster for the first time.

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