TY - JOUR
T1 - A blind ATCA HI survey of the Fornax galaxy cluster : properties of the HI detections
AU - Loni, A.
AU - Serra, P.
AU - Kleiner, D.
AU - Cortese, L.
AU - Catinella, B.
AU - Koribalski, B.
AU - Jarrett, T. H.
AU - Molnar, D. Cs.
AU - Davis, T. A.
AU - Iodice, E.
AU - Lee-Waddell, K.
AU - Loi, F.
AU - Maccagni, F. M.
AU - Peletier, R.
AU - Popping, R.
AU - Ramatsoku, M.
AU - Smith, M. W. L.
AU - Zabel, N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ESO 2021.
PY - 2021/4/1
Y1 - 2021/4/1
N2 - We present the first interferometric blind HI survey of the Fornax galaxy cluster, which covers an area of 15 deg out to the cluster virial radius. The survey has a spatial and velocity resolution of 67″ × 95″(∼6 × 9 kpc at the Fornax cluster distance of 20 Mpc) and 6.6 km s and a 3σ sensitivity of N ∼2 × 10 cm and M ∼2 × 10 M , respectively. We detect 16 galaxies out of roughly 200 spectroscopically confirmed Fornax cluster members. The detections cover about three orders of magnitude in HI mass, from 8 × 10 to 1.5 × 10 M . They avoid the central, virialised region of the cluster both on the sky and in projected phase-space, showing that they are recent arrivals and that, in Fornax, HI is lost within a crossing time, ∼2 Gyr. Half of these galaxies exhibit a disturbed HI morphology, including several cases of asymmetries, tails, offsets between HI and optical centres, and a case of a truncated HI disc. This suggests that these recent arrivals have been interacting with other galaxies, the large-scale potential or the intergalactic medium, within or on their way to Fornax. As a whole, our Fornax HI detections are HI-poorer and form stars at a lower rate than non-cluster galaxies in the same M range. This is particularly evident at M 10 M , indicating that low mass galaxies are more strongly affected throughout their infall towards the cluster. The M/M ratio of Fornax galaxies is comparable to that in the Virgo cluster. At fixed M , our HI detections follow the non-cluster relation between M and the star formation rate, and we argue that this implies that thus far they have lost their HI on a timescale 1-2 Gyr. Deeper inside the cluster HI removal is likely to proceed faster, as confirmed by a population of HI-undetected but H-detected star-forming galaxies. Overall, based on ALMA data, we find a large scatter in H-to-HI mass ratio, with several galaxies showing an unusually high ratio that is probably caused by faster HI removal. Finally, we identify an HI-rich subgroup of possible interacting galaxies dominated by NGC 1365, where pre-processing is likely to have taken place.
AB - We present the first interferometric blind HI survey of the Fornax galaxy cluster, which covers an area of 15 deg out to the cluster virial radius. The survey has a spatial and velocity resolution of 67″ × 95″(∼6 × 9 kpc at the Fornax cluster distance of 20 Mpc) and 6.6 km s and a 3σ sensitivity of N ∼2 × 10 cm and M ∼2 × 10 M , respectively. We detect 16 galaxies out of roughly 200 spectroscopically confirmed Fornax cluster members. The detections cover about three orders of magnitude in HI mass, from 8 × 10 to 1.5 × 10 M . They avoid the central, virialised region of the cluster both on the sky and in projected phase-space, showing that they are recent arrivals and that, in Fornax, HI is lost within a crossing time, ∼2 Gyr. Half of these galaxies exhibit a disturbed HI morphology, including several cases of asymmetries, tails, offsets between HI and optical centres, and a case of a truncated HI disc. This suggests that these recent arrivals have been interacting with other galaxies, the large-scale potential or the intergalactic medium, within or on their way to Fornax. As a whole, our Fornax HI detections are HI-poorer and form stars at a lower rate than non-cluster galaxies in the same M range. This is particularly evident at M 10 M , indicating that low mass galaxies are more strongly affected throughout their infall towards the cluster. The M/M ratio of Fornax galaxies is comparable to that in the Virgo cluster. At fixed M , our HI detections follow the non-cluster relation between M and the star formation rate, and we argue that this implies that thus far they have lost their HI on a timescale 1-2 Gyr. Deeper inside the cluster HI removal is likely to proceed faster, as confirmed by a population of HI-undetected but H-detected star-forming galaxies. Overall, based on ALMA data, we find a large scatter in H-to-HI mass ratio, with several galaxies showing an unusually high ratio that is probably caused by faster HI removal. Finally, we identify an HI-rich subgroup of possible interacting galaxies dominated by NGC 1365, where pre-processing is likely to have taken place.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:64843
M3 - Article
SN - 0004-6361
VL - 648
JO - Astronomy and Astrophysics
JF - Astronomy and Astrophysics
M1 - A31
ER -