The HIPASS catalogue: Omega_HI and environmental effects on the HI mass function of galaxies

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2005-02-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0502257v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 359 (2005) L30

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters. 5 pages, including 4 figures. Corrected typos

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1745-3933.2005.00029.x

We use the catalogue of 4315 extragalactic HI 21-cm emission line detections from HIPASS to calculate the most accurate measurement of the HI mass function (HIMF) of galaxies to date. The completeness of the HIPASS sample is well characterised, which enables an accurate calculation of space densities. The HIMF is fitted with a Schechter function with parameters: alpha=-1.37 +/- 0.03 +/- 0.05, log (M_HI/M_sun=9.80 +/- 0.03 +/- 0.03, and theta*=(6.0 +/- 0.8 +/- 0.6) x 10^{-3} Mpc^{-3} (random and systematic uncertainties at 68% CL, H0=75), in good agreement with calculations based on the HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalogue, which is a complete, but smaller, sub-sample of galaxies. The cosmological mass density of HI in the local universe is found to be Omega_HI=(3.5 +/- 0.4 +/- 0.4) x 10^{-4}. This large homogeneous sample allows us to test whether the shape of the HIMF depends on local galaxy density. We find tentative evidence for environmental effects in the sense that the HIMF becomes steeper toward higher density regions, ranging from alpha ~ -1.2 in the lowest density environments to alpha ~ -1.5 in the highest density environments probed by this blind HI survey. This effect appears stronger when densities are measured on larger scales.

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