Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-11-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
6 pages, 3 figures, conference proceedings, PoS(PRA2009)051
Scientific paper
Results from new HI synthesis observations of the nearby blue compact dwarf galaxy, NGC 2915, carried out on the Australian Telescope Compact Array are presented. High resolution HI moment maps for the galaxy reveal complex HI distributions and kinematics. The presence of large non-circular velocity components within the gas at inner radii is revealed. The central gas dynamics are consistent with the simple scenario in which winds from high-mass stars are expelling the gas outwards from the centre of the galaxy. A model in which the central region is treated as a rotating, expanding gas torus is able to reproduce the inner HI morphology and kinematics of NGC 2915. We also find intriguing evidence for a gas infall event which, if confirmed, would be the first such evidence for a low-mass system.
de Blok J. G. W.
Elson E. C.
Kraan-Koretweg R. C.
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