A neutral hydrogen survey of polar ring galaxies^*

IV. Parkes observations

¹ GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, Section de Meudon, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France
² LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, 61 avenue de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France e-mail: francoise.combes@obspm.fr
³ Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, V. Moiariello 16, Napoli 80131, Italy e-mail: magda@cerere.na.astro.it
⁴ Astronomy Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 475 N. Charter St., Madison WI 53706, USA e-mail: sparke@uwast.astro.wisc.edu

Corresponding author: W. van Driel, wim.vandriel@obspm.fr

Received: 13 December 2001
Accepted: 5 February 2002

Abstract

A total of 33 polar ring galaxies and polar ring galaxy candidates were observed in the 21-cm  line with the 64-m Parkes radio telescope. The objects, selected by their optical morphology, are all south of declination –39  and in only 5 of them  had been reported previously.  line emission was detected towards 18 objects, though in 3 cases the detection may be confused by another galaxy in the telescope beam, and one is a marginal detection. Eight objects were detected for the first time in , of which 5 did not have previously known redshifts.