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A New HI Ring: LGG 138

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

David G. Barnes
David G. Barnes*
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2122, Australia; dbarnes@atnf.csiro.au
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Abstract

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A complete ring of neutral hydrogen gas (HI) in the LGG 138 group of galaxies has been found. The HI mass of the ring is greater than 109, and the gas appears to be rotating with a projected circular speed of ∼200 km s−1. Two bright galaxies are enclosed by the ring, both having radial velocities consistent with membership of the group. Faint stellar emission extends to the radial distance of the HI ring, where a small but distinct colour discontinuity of between 0·05 and 0·20 magnitudes is detected. Three simple models for the formation of the system are briefly described, the most likely appearing to be a past gas-sweeping collision between one of the two bright galaxies and an outside intruder, with the colour break being partly due to an expanding density wave that is triggering star formation, and partly to a different stellar population that has been collected from the outskirts of the intruder.

Keywords

galaxies: kinematics and dynamicsgalaxies: interactionsgalaxies: clusters: individual (LGG 138)
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , 1999 , pp. 77 - 83
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1999

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