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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
The arecibo galaxy environment survey - IV. the NGC 7448 region and the Hi mass function
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 415, No. 2, Year 2011
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In this paper we describe results from the Arecibo Galaxy Environments Survey (AGES). The survey reaches column densities of ~3 × 1018cm-2 and masses of ~107 M⊙, over individual regions of order 10deg2 in size, out to a maximum velocity of 18000kms-1. Each surveyed region is centred on a nearby galaxy, group or cluster, in this instance the NGC 7448 group. Galaxy interactions in the NGC 7448 group reveal themselves through the identification of tidal tails and bridges. We find ~2.5 times more atomic gas in the intergalactic medium than in the group galaxies. We identify five new dwarf galaxies, two of which appear to be members of the NGC 7448 group. This is too small, by roughly an order of magnitude, a number of dwarf galaxies to reconcile observation with theoretical predictions of galaxy formation models. If they had observed this region of the sky in previous wide-area blind Hi surveys, HIPASS and ALFALFA, they would have detected only 5 and 43 per cent, respectively, of the galaxies we have detected, missing a large fraction of the atomic gas in this volume. We combine the data from this paper with that from our other AGES papers (370 galaxies) to derive an Hi mass function with the following Schechter function parameters: α=-1.52(±0.05),M*= 5.1(±0.3) × 109h-272 M⊙, φ{symbol}= 8.6(±1.1) × 10-3h372Mpc-3dex-1. Integrating the mass function leads to a cosmic mass density of atomic hydrogen of ΩHI= 5.3 (± 0.8) × 10-4h-172. Our mass function is steeper than that found by both HIPASS and ALFALFA (α= 1.37 and 1.33, respectively), while our cosmic mass density is consistent with ALFALFA, but 1.7 times larger than found by HIPASS. © 2011 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2011 RAS.
Authors & Co-Authors
Davies, Jonathan I.
United Kingdom, Cardiff
Cardiff University
Auld, Robbie R.
United Kingdom, Cardiff
Cardiff University
Minchin, Robert F.
United States, Arecibo
Arecibo Observatory
Momjian, Emmanuel
United States, Socorro
National Radio Astronomy Observatory Socorro
Schneider, Stephen E.
United States, Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Smith, Matthew W.L.
United Kingdom, Cardiff
Cardiff University
van Driel, Willem
France, Paris
L'observatoire de Paris
Statistics
Citations: 38
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18833.x
ISSN:
00358711
Research Areas
Disability
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative