Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-02-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
2 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings IAU Symposium no. 235, "Galaxy Evolution across the Hubble Time", F. Combes & J. Palous, eds
Scientific paper
10.1017/S1743921306005990
Carignan et al. (2006) recently presented an extended HI rotation curve (RC) of M31, using single dish observations from the 100m Effelsberg and Green Bank telescopes. These observations were motivated by a comparison with previous HI data from Braun (1991) which presented a decreasing rotation curve as a function of radius. The single dish data were obtained along the semi-major axis of the approaching half of the M31 HI disk and showed a flat RC at large radius, extending up to ~35 kpc (using D=780 kpc). The kinematical analysis of M31 is pursued here and new deep 21cm observations obtained at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO) are presented. A tilted-ring model is fitted to a new HI velocity field, allowing the derivation of the position angle and inclination as a function of radius. We concentrate on the approaching half of the disk. It is shown that the disk warping of M31 does not severely contaminate the kinematics of the neutral gas. As a consequence, the RC from the single dish data is in very good agreement with the newly derived RC.
Carignan Claude
Chemin Laurent
Foster Tyler
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