VLA HI and OVRO CO Interferometry of a Tidal Dwarf Galaxy

dc.creatorBrinks, Elias
dc.creatorDuc, Pierre-Alain
dc.creatorWalter, Fabian
dc.date2004-02-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:12:14Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:12:14Z
dc.descriptionWe present high resolution interferometric observations of the cool atomic and cold molecular ISM of the TDG candidate Arp 245N, an object resembling a dwarf galaxy in the northern tidal tail of the interacting system NGC 2992/3. We observed the HI line with the NRAO VLA and the CO(1-->0) transition with the OVRO millimeter interferometer at 5''-6'' angular resolution (750 pc linear resolution). These datacubes offer the required spatial and velocity resolution to determine whether the mass concentration near the tip of the tail is a genuine feature, and hence a good TDG candidate, or an artefact caused by a fortuitous alignment of our line of sight with the direction of the tail. A preliminary analysis seems to confirm that Arp 245N is a self-gravitating entity.
dc.description6 pages 3 figures, to be published in: Proceedings of IAU Symposium 217: Recycling Intergalactic and Interstellar Matter (eds. Duc, Braine & Brinks)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402274
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402274
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/7382
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleVLA HI and OVRO CO Interferometry of a Tidal Dwarf Galaxy
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