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Issue A&A
Volume 482, Number 1, April IV 2008
Page(s) 43 - 52
Section Extragalactic astronomy
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:200809382
Published online 14 February 2008



A&A 482, 43-52 (2008)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200809382

HI content and other structural properties of galaxies in the Virgo cluster from the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey

G. Gavazzi1, R. Giovanelli2, M. P. Haynes2, S. Fabello1, M. Fumagalli1, B. R. Kent2, R. A. Koopmann3, N. Brosch4, G. L. Hoffman5, J. J. Salzer6, and A. Boselli7

1  Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza delle Scienze 3, 20126 Milano, Italy
    e-mail: giuseppe.gavazzi@mib.infn.it
2  Center for Radiophysics and Space Research and National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
3  Dept. of Physics & Astronomy. Union College. Schenectady, NY 12308, USA
4  The Wise Observatory and The Raymond & Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel
5  Hugel Science Center, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042, USA
6  Astronomy Dept. Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06457, USA
7  Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, BP 8, Traverse du Siphon, 13376 Marseille, France

(Received 10 January 2008 / Accepted 25 January 2008)

Abstract
We report the results of an HI blind survey of 80 deg2 of the Virgo cluster, based on the 08° $\leq \delta \leq$ 16° strip of ALFALFA, the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey. 187 HI sources of high significance are found providing a complete census of HI sources in this region of the Virgo cluster ( -1000<cz<3000 km s-1) with $M_{\rm HI} \geq 10^{7.5\, \sim \,8}~M_\odot$. 156/187 (83%) sources are identified with optical galaxies from the Virgo Cluster Catalogue (Binggeli et al. 1985, AJ, 90, 1681), all but 8 with late-type galaxies. Ten sources are not associated with optical galaxies and were found to correspond to tidally-disrupted systems (see Kent et al. 2007, ApJ, 665, L15; and Haynes et al. 2007, ApJ, 665, L19). The remaining 21 (11%) are associated with galaxies that are not listed in the Virgo Cluster Catalogue. For all sources with an optical counterpart in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we analyzed i-band SDSS plates to measure optical structural parameters. We find that in the Virgo cluster: i) HI inhabits galaxies that are structurally similar to ordinary late-type galaxies; ii) their HI content can be predicted from their optical luminosity; iii) low surface brightness galaxies have low optical luminosity and contain small quantities of neutral hydrogen; iv) low surface brightness, massive Malin1 type galaxies are comfortably rare objects (less than 0.5%); v) there are no "dark-galaxies" with HI masses $M_{\rm HI} \geq 10^{7.5\, \sim \,8}~M_\odot$; vi) less than 1% of early-type galaxies contain neutral hydrogen with $M_{\rm HI} \geq 10^{7.5\, \sim \,8}~M_\odot$ (di Serego Alighieri et al. 2007, A&A, 474, 851).


Key words: galaxies: clusters: individual: Virgo -- galaxies: evolution -- galaxies: ISM -- galaxies: fundamental parameters



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