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Wallaby Pre-Pilot Survey: Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies In The Eridanus Supergroup, B-Q For, K. Spekkens, L. Stavely-Smith, K. Bekki, A. Karunakaran, B. Catinella, Bärbel S. Koribalski, K. Lee-Waddell, Juan P. Madrid, C. Murugeshan Sep 2023

Wallaby Pre-Pilot Survey: Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies In The Eridanus Supergroup, B-Q For, K. Spekkens, L. Stavely-Smith, K. Bekki, A. Karunakaran, B. Catinella, Bärbel S. Koribalski, K. Lee-Waddell, Juan P. Madrid, C. Murugeshan

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations

We present a pilot study of the atomic neutral hydrogen gas (H I) content of ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates. In this paper, we use the pre-pilot Eridanus field data from the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey to search for H I in UDG candidates found in the Systematically Measuring Ultra-diffuse Galaxies survey (SMUDGes). We narrow down to 78 SMUDGes UDG candidates within the maximum radial extents of the Eridanus subgroups for this study. Most SMUDGes UDGs candidates in this study have effective radii smaller than 1.5 kpc and thus fail to meet the defining size threshold. We …


Wallaby Pre-Pilot Survey: H I Content Of The Eridanus Supergroup, B. Q. For, J. Wang, Tobias Westmeier, O. I. Wong, C. Murugeshan, L. Staveley-Smith, H. M. Courtois, D. Pomarede, Juan P. Madrid Aug 2021

Wallaby Pre-Pilot Survey: H I Content Of The Eridanus Supergroup, B. Q. For, J. Wang, Tobias Westmeier, O. I. Wong, C. Murugeshan, L. Staveley-Smith, H. M. Courtois, D. Pomarede, Juan P. Madrid

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations

We present observations of the Eridanus supergroup obtained with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) as part of the pre-pilot survey for the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey (WALLABY). The total number of detected H I sources is 55, of which 12 are background galaxies not associated with the Eridanus supergroup. Two massive H I clouds are identified and large H I debris fields are seen in the NGC 1359 interacting galaxy pair, and the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 1385. We describe the data products from the source finding algorithm and present the basic parameters. The …