HI Bright Galaxies in the Southern Zone of Avoidance
Abstract
A blind survey for HI bright galaxies in the southern Zone of Avoidance, (212 deg < l < 36 deg; |b| < 5 deg), has been made with the 21 cm multibeam receiver on the Parkes 64 m radiotelescope. The survey, sensitive to normal spiral galaxies to a distance of about 40 Mpc and more nearby dwarfs, detected 110 galaxies. Of these, 67 have no counterparts in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. In general, the uncataloged galaxies lie behind thicker obscuration than do the cataloged objects. All of the newly-discovered galaxies have HI flux integrals more than an order of magnitude lower than the Circinus galaxy. The survey recovers the Puppis cluster and foreground group (Kraan-Korteweg & Huchtmeier 1992), and the Local Void remains empty. The HI mass function derived for the sample is satisfactorily fit by a Schechter function with parameters alpha = 1.51 +- 0.12, Phi* = 0.006 +- 0.003, and log M* = 9.7 +- 0.10.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0003245,
title = {HI Bright Galaxies in the Southern Zone of Avoidance},
author = {P. A. Henning and L. Staveley-Smith and R. D. Ekers and A. J. Green and R. F. Haynes and S. Juraszek and M. J. Kesteven and B. Koribalski and R. C. Kraan-Korteweg and R. M. Price and E. M. Sadler and A. Schroeder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0003245},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in The Astronomical Journal