Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-09-06
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.372:853-861,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 8 figures; accepted in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10904.x
We present GMRT HI observations of an eXtremely Metal Deficient (XMD) galaxy SBS 1129+576 (12 + log(O/H) = 7.41). Our HI observations show that the galaxy is strongly interacting with a companion galaxy, SBS 1129+577. A third, smaller galaxy, SDSS J113227.68+572142.3, is also present in the data cube. Our low-resolution map shows a bridge of emission connecting the two larger galaxies and a large one-armed spiral distortion of the disc of SBS 1129+577. Assuming that most of the bridge gas originally came from SBS 1129+576, ~1/3 of its original gas mass has been stripped off. The third smaller galaxy does not show any sign of interaction with the other two galaxies. The higher resolution maps show that SBS 1129+577 has a central bar and a ring surrounding the bar; there is also a hint of an integral-shaped warp in SBS 1129+576. All these features are very likely to have been induced by the tidal interaction. In both SBS 1129+576 and SBS 1129+577, there is, in general, a good correspondence between regions with high HI column density and those with ongoing star formation. The inclination-corrected HI column density in the two brightest HII regions in SBS 1129+576 and near the HII regions in SBS 1129+577 is generally above the threshold density for star formation observed in other blue compact galaxies. (abridged)
Chengalur Jayaram N.
Ekta
Pustilnik Simon A.
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