Large-scale HI structures and the origin of radio galaxies
Abstract
We present the first results of a study aimed to detect large HI structures in radio galaxies. In two of the three cases presented (Coma A and B2 0648+27), the detection of a large amount of HI distributed over several tens of kpc suggests a major merger as origin of the observed system and allows to infer when this merger must have occurred. The situation is less clear for the third object (3C 433). We propose an evolutionary sequence for one of the radio galaxies studied. The implications of this study of neutral hydrogen in nearby radio galaxies for high-z objects and ``normal'' (i.e. radio-quiet) elliptical galaxies are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0301496,
title = {Large-scale HI structures and the origin of radio galaxies},
author = {R. Morganti and T. Oosterloo and C. Tadhunter and B. Emonts},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0301496},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the conference "Radio Galaxies: Past, present and future", Leiden, 11-15 Nov 2002, eds. M. Jarvis et al