Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-04-05
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.369:1741-1754,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 17 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables, version with high-resolution figures available at: http:/
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10414.x
We report the discovery of a very HI-massive disk galaxy, HIZOA J0836-43, at a velocity of v_hel = 10689 km/s, corresponding to a distance of 148 Mpc (assuming H_0=75 km/s/Mpc). It was found during the course of a systematic HI survey of the southern Zone of Avoidance (|b| < 5 deg) with the multibeam system at the 64m Parkes radio telescope. Follow-up observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) reveal an extended HI disk. We derive an HI mass of 7.5 x 10^10 Msun. Using the HI radius, we estimate a total dynamical mass of 1.4 x 10^12 Msun, similar to the most massive known disk galaxies such as Malin 1. HIZOA J0836-43 lies deep in the Zone of Avoidance (l, b = 262.48 deg, -1.64 deg) where the optical extinction is very high, A_B = 9.8. However, in the near-infrared wavebands, where the extinction is considerably lower, HIZOA J0836-43 is clearly detected by both DENIS and 2MASS. Deep AAT near-infrared (Ks and H-band) images show that HIZOA J0836-43 is an inclined disk galaxy with a prominent bulge (scale length 2.5 arcsec or 1.7 kpc), and an extended disk (scale length 7 arcsec or 4.7 kpc) which can be traced along the major axis out to a radius of 20 arcsec or 13.4 kpc (at 20 mag/arcsec^2 in Ks). The HI disk is much more extended, having a radius of 66 kpc at 1 Msun/pc^2. Detections in the radio continuum at 1.4 GHz and at 60 micron (IRAS) are consistent with HIZOA J0836-43 forming stars at a rate of ~35 Msun/yr. We compare the properties of HIZOA J0836-43 with those of the most HI-massive galaxies currently known, UGC 4288, UGC 1752 and Malin 1, all of which are classified as giant low surface brightness galaxies.
Donley Jennifer L.
Henning Patricia A.
Koribalski Baerbel S.
Kraan-Korteweg Renee C.
Schroeder Almut
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