GASP XXXIX: MeerKAT hunts Jellyfish in A2626.

Autor: Deb, Tirna, Verheijen, Marc A W, Poggianti, Bianca M, Moretti, Alessia, Hulst, J M van der, Vulcani, Benedetta, Ramatsoku, Mpati, Serra, Paolo, Healy, Julia, Gullieuszik, Marco, Bacchini, Cecilia, Ignesti, Alessandro, Müller, Ancla, Zabel, Nikki, Luber, Nicholas, Jaffë, Yara L, Gitti, Myriam
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Zdroj: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Oct2022, Vol. 516 Issue 2, p2683-2696, 14p
Abstrakt: We present MeerKAT H  i observations of six jellyfish candidate galaxies (JFCGs) in the galaxy cluster, A2626. Two of the six galaxies JW100 and JW103, which were identified as JFCGs from B-band images, are confirmed as jellyfish galaxies (JFGs). Both of the JFGs have low H  i content, reside in the cluster core, and move at very high velocities (∼ 3σ cl ). The other JFCGs, identified as non-jellyfish galaxies, are H  i rich, with H  i morphologies revealing warps, asymmetries, and possible tidal interactions. Both the A2626 JFGs and three other confirmed JFGs from the GASP sample show that these galaxies are H  i stripped but not yet quenched. We detect H  i , H α, and CO(2-1) tails of similar extent (∼50 kpc) in JW100. Comparing the multiphase velocity channels, we do not detect any H  i or CO(2-1) emission in the northern section of the tail where H α emission is present, possibly due to prolonged interaction between the stripped gas and the intracluster medium. We also observe an anticorrelation between H  i and CO(2-1), which hints at an efficient conversion of H  i to H2 in the southern part of the tail. We find that both ram-pressure stripping and H  i -to-H2 conversion are significant depletion channels for atomic gas. H  i -to-H2 conversion is more efficient in the disc than in the tail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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