MeerKAT-64 discovers wide-spread tidal debris in the nearby NGC 7232 galaxy group

Author:

Namumba B1,Koribalski B S23ORCID,Józsa G I G14,Lee-Waddell K2ORCID,Jones M G56ORCID,Carignan C789,Verdes-Montenegro L5,Ianjamasimanana R14ORCID,de Blok W J G71011,Cluver M1213ORCID,Garrido J5,Sánchez-Expósito S5,Ramaila A J T4,Thorat K14ORCID,Andati L A L1,Hugo B V14,Kleiner D15ORCID,Kamphuis P16,Serra P15,Smirnov O M14,Maccagni F M15ORCID,Makhathini S17,Molnár D Cs15ORCID,Perkins S4,Ramatsoku M115,White S V1ORCID,Loi F15ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics and Electronics, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Makhanda, 6140, South Africa

2. Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia

3. Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia

4. South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, Black River Park, 2 Fir Street, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa

5. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía, E-18008 Granada, Spain

6. Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Rm. N204, Tucson, AZ 85721-0065, USA

7. Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa

8. Département de physique, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada

9. Observatoire d’Astrophysique de l’Université de Ouagadougou, BP 7021, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso

10. Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4, NL-7991 PD Dwingeloo, the Netherlands

11. Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Postbus 800, NL-9700 AV Groningen, the Netherlands

12. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia

13. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of the Western Cape, Robert Sobkwe Road, Bellville 7535, South Africa

14. Department of Physics, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria 0028, South Africa

15. INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, Via della Scienza 5, I-09047 Selargius (CA), Italy

16. Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Astronomical Institute, Ruhr University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

17. School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa

Abstract

ABSTRACT We report the discovery of large amounts of previously undetected cold neutral atomic hydrogen (H i) around the core triplet galaxies in the nearby NGC 7232 galaxy group with MeerKAT. With a physical resolution of ∼1 kpc, we detect a complex web of low-surface-brightness H i emission down to a 4σ column density level of ∼1 × 1019 cm−2 (over 44  km s−1). The newly discovered H i streams extend over ∼20 arcmin corresponding to 140 kpc in projection. This is approximately three times the H i extent of the galaxy triplet (52 kpc). The H i debris has an H i mass of ∼6.6 × 109 M⊙, more than 50 per cent of the total H i mass of the triplet. Within the galaxy triplet, NGC 7233 and NGC 7232 have lost a significant amount of H i while NGC 7232B appears to have an excess of H i. The H i deficiency in NGC 7232 and NGC 7233 indicates that galaxy–galaxy interaction in the group concentrates on this galaxy pair while the other disc galaxies have visited them over time. In comparison to the AMIGA sample of isolated galaxies, we find that with regards to its total H i mass the NGC 7232/3 galaxy triplet is not H i-deficient. Despite the many interactions associated to the triplet galaxies, no H i seems to have been lost from the group (yet).

Funder

National Science Foundation, United Arab Emirates

Department of Science and Technology

University of Cape Town

University of Pretoria

University of the Western Cape

BMBF

MINECO

FEDER

AEI

European Research Council

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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