New Galaxies Discovered in the First Blind HI Survey of the Centaurus A Group

Details New Galaxies Discovered in the First Blind HI Survey of the Centaurus A Group New Galaxies Discovered in the First Blind HI Survey of the Centaurus A Group

1999-06-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9906146v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages Latex, 6 figures (Fig. 2 in four parts, Fig.5 in two parts). To appear in The Astrophysical Journal (Vol. 524, Octobe

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10.1086/307854

We have commenced a 21-cm survey of the entire southern sky (\delta < 0 degrees, -1200 km/s < v < 12700 km/s) which is ''blind'', i.e. unbiased by previous optical information. In the present paper we report on the results of a pilot project which is based on data from this all-sky survey. The project was carried out on an area of 600 square degrees centred on the nearby Centaurus A (Cen A) group of galaxies at a mean velocity of v ~ 500 km/s. This was recently the subject of a separate and thorough optical survey. We found 10 new group members to add to the 21 galaxies already known in the Cen A group: five of these are previously uncatalogued galaxies, while five were previously catalogued but not known to be associated with the group. We found optical counterparts for all the HI detections, most of them intrinsically very faint low surface brightness dwarfs. The new group members add approximately 6% to the HI mass of the group and 4% to its light. The HI mass function, derived from all the known group galaxies in the interval 10^7 \Msun of HI to 10^9 \Msun of HI, has a faint-end slope of 1.30 +/- 0.15, allowing us to rule out a slope of 1.7 at 95% confidence. Even if the number in the lowest mass bin is increased by 50%, the slope only increases to 1.45 +/- 0.15.

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