Issue |
A&A
Volume 369, Number 2, April II 2001
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Page(s) | 432 - 440 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20010116 | |
Published online | 15 April 2001 |
HI deficiency in the galaxy cluster ACO 3627*
ATCA observations in the Great Attractor region
1
Observatoire de Paris, DAEC, UMR 8631, CNRS et Université Paris 7, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France
2
Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik der Universität Heidelberg, Tiergartenstraße 15, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany
3
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
4
Unité Scientifique Nançay, CNRS USR 704B, Observatoire de Paris, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France
5
Institute for Astrophysics, University of New Mexico, 800 Yale Boulevard, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
6
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Guanajuato, Apdo. Postal 144, Guanajuato, Gto. 36000, Mexico
7
Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700 South Africa
8
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
Corresponding author: B. Vollmer, bvollmer@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
Received:
19
September
2000
Accepted:
12
January
2001
ATCA 21 cm Hi observations of the rich galaxy cluster ACO 3627
in the Great Attractor region are presented. Three fields of 30'
diameter located within one Abell radius of ACO 3627 were
observed with a resolution of 15'' and an rms noise of ~1
mJy/beam. Only two galaxies were detected in these fields. We compare
their Hi distribution to new optical R-band images and discuss
their velocity fields. The first galaxy is a gas-rich unperturbed
spiral whereas the second shows a peculiar Hi distribution.
The estimated 3σ Hi mass limit of our observations is
~ for a line width of 150 km s-1.
The non-detection of a considerable number of luminous spiral galaxies
indicates that the spiral galaxies are Hi deficient. The low
detection rate is comparable to the Hi deficient Coma cluster
(Bravo-Alfaro et al. [CITE]). ACO 3627 is a bright X-ray cluster. We
therefore suspect that ram pressure stripping is responsible for
the Hi deficiency of the bright cluster spirals.
Key words: galaxies: interactions / galaxies: ISM / galaxies: kinematics and dynamics
© ESO, 2001
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