MIGHTEE-HI: discovery of an H I-rich galaxy group at z = 0.044 with MeerKAT

We present the serendipitous discovery of a galaxy group in the XMM-LSS field with MIGHTEE Early Science observations. 20 galaxies are detected in H i in this z ∼0.044 group, with a 3σ column density sensitivity of NHI = 1.6 × 1020 cm-2. This group has not been previously identified, despite residin...

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Autores: Ranchod, Shilpa, Deane, Roger P., Ponomareva, Anastasia A., Blecher, Tariq, Frank, Bradley S., Jarvis, Matt J., Maddox, Natasha, Mulaudzi, Wanga, Glowacki, Marcin, Hess, Kelley M., Tudorache, Madalina, Verdes-Montenegro, Lourdes, Adams, Nathan J., Bowler, Rebecca A. A., Collier, Jordan D., Taylor, Russ
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2021
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositório:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/259992
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/259992
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Instrumentation: interferometers
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: groups: individual
Radio lines: galaxies
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Resumo:We present the serendipitous discovery of a galaxy group in the XMM-LSS field with MIGHTEE Early Science observations. 20 galaxies are detected in H i in this z ∼0.044 group, with a 3σ column density sensitivity of NHI = 1.6 × 1020 cm-2. This group has not been previously identified, despite residing in a well-studied extragalactic legacy field. We present spatially resolved H i total intensity and velocity maps for each of the objects which reveal environmental influence through disturbed morphologies. The group has a dynamical mass of log10(Mdyn/M⊙) = 12.32, and is unusually gas-rich, with an H i-to-stellar mass ratio of log10(f∗HI) = -0.2, which is 0.7 dex greater than expected. The group's high H i content, spatial, velocity, and identified galaxy type distributions strongly suggest that it is in the early stages of its assembly. The discovery of this galaxy group is an example of the importance of mapping spatially resolved H i in a wide range of environments, including galaxy groups. This scientific goal has been dramatically enhanced by the high sensitivity, large field-of-view, and wide instantaneous bandwidth of the MeerKAT telescope. © 2021 The Author(s).

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