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2006MNRAS.371.1617A - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 371, 1617-1640 (2006/October-1)
The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey: precursor observations of the NGC 628 group.
AULD R., MINCHIN R.F., DAVIES J.I., CATINELLA B., VAN DRIEL W., HENNING P.A., LINDER S., MOMJIAN E., MULLER E., O'NEIL K., SABATINI S., SCHNEIDER S., BOTHUN G., CORTESE L., DISNEY M., HOFFMAN G.L., PUTMAN M., ROSENBERG J.L., BAES M., DE BLOK W.J.G., BOSELLI A., BRINKS E., BROSCH N., IRWIN J., KARACHENTSEV I.D., KILBORN V.A., KORIBALSKI B. and SPEKKENS K.
Abstract (from CDS):
In this paper, we describe the survey and its goals and present the results from the precursor observations of a 5x1-deg2 region containing the nearby (∼10Mpc) NGC 628 group. We have detected all the group galaxies in the region including the low-mass (MHI∼107M☉) dwarf, dw0137+1541. The fluxes and velocities for these galaxies compare well with previously published data. There is no intragroup neutral gas detected down to a limiting column density of 2x1018/cm2.
In addition to the group galaxies we have detected 22 galaxies beyond the NGC 628 group, nine of which are previously uncatalogued. We present the Hi data for these objects and also SuperCOSMOS images for possible optical galaxies that might be associated with the Hi signal. We have used V/Vmaxanalysis to model how many galaxies beyond 1000km/s should be detected and compare this with our results. The predicted number of detectable galaxies varies depending on the Hi mass function (HIMF) used in the analysis. Unfortunately the precursor survey area is too small to determine whether this is saying anything fundamental about the HIMF or simply highlighting the effect of low number statistics. This is just one of many questions that will be addressed by the complete AGES survey.
Abstract Copyright: 2006 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2006 RAS
Journal keyword(s): surveys - Galaxy: evolution - galaxies: fundamental parameters - galaxies: luminosity function, mass function - galaxies: structure
Nomenclature: Table 3: AGES JHHMMSS+DDMMSS N=22.
Simbad objects: 57
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