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A multi-beam HI survey of the Virgo Cluster - two isolated HI clouds ? | | J. Davies
; R. Minchin
; S. Sabatini
; W. van Driel
; M. Baes
; P. Boyce
; W. J. G. de Blok
; M. Disney
; Rh. Evans
; V. Kilborn
; R. Lang
; S. Linder
; S. Roberts
; R. Smith
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19 Dec 2003 | | Journal: | Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 349 (2004) 922 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Abstract: | We have carried out a fully sampled large area ($4^{circ} imes 8^{circ}$) 21cm HI line survey of part of the Virgo cluster using the Jodrell Bank multi-beam instrument. The survey has a sensitivity some 3 times better than the standard HIJASS and HIPASS surveys. We detect 31 galaxies, 27 of which are well known cluster members. The four new detections have been confirmed in the HIPASS data and by follow up Jodrell Bank pointed observations. One object lies behind M86, but the other 3 have no obvious optical counter parts upon inspection of the digital sky survey fields. These 3 objects were mapped at Arecibo with a smaller am{3}{6} HPBW and a 4 times better sensitivity than the Jodrell Bank data, which allow an improved determination of the dimensions and location of two of the objects, but surprisingly failed to detect the third. The two objects are resolved by the Arecibo beam giving them a size far larger than any optical images in the nearby field. To our mass limit of $5 imes 10^{7}$ $frac{Delta v}{50 km s^{-1}}$ $M_{odot}$ and column density limit of $3 imes 10^{18}$ $frac{Delta v}{50 km s^{-1}}$ atoms cm$^{-2}$ these new detections represent only about 2% of the cluster atomic hydrogen mass. Our observations indicate that the HI mass function of the cluster turns down at the low mass end making it very different to the field galaxy HI mass function. This is quite different to the Virgo cluster optical luminosity function which is much steeper than that in the general field. Many of the sample galaxies are relatively gas poor compared to HI selected samples of field galaxies, confirming the ’anaemic spirals’ view of Virgo cluster late type galaxies. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0312531 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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