The environmental dependence of neutral hydrogen content in spiral galaxies

Details The environmental dependence of neutral hydrogen content in spiral galaxies The environmental dependence of neutral hydrogen content in spiral galaxies

2008-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/0804.3573v1

AIP Conf.Proc.1035:208-210,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in AIP Conference Proceedings, "The Evolution of Galaxies through the Neutral Hydrogen Window", Feb 1-3 2008, Arecib

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2973582

We present a study of the relationship between the deficiency of neutral hydrogen and the local three-dimensional number density of spiral galaxies in the Arecibo catalog of global HI measurements (Springob et al. 2005). We find that the dependence on density of the HI content is weak at low densities, but increases sharply at high densities where interactions between galaxies and the intra-cluster medium become important. This behavior is reminiscent of the morphology-density relation (Dressler 1980) in that the effect manifests itself only at cluster-type densities, and indeed when we plot both the HI deficiency-density and morphology-density relations, we see that the densities at which they "turn up" are similar. This suggests that the physical mechanisms responsible for the increase in early types in clusters are also responsible for the decrease in HI content.

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