A census of H$\alpha$ emitters in the intergalactic medium of the NGC 2865 system

Abstract

Tidal debris which are rich in HI gas, formed in interacting and merging systems, are suitable laboratories to study star formation outside galaxies. Recently, several such systems were observed, which contained many young star forming regions outside the galaxies. In previous works, we have studied young star forming regions outside galaxies in different systems with optical and/or gaseous tidal debris, all of them with available archive GALEX/UV images, in order to understand how often they occur and in which type of environments. In this paper we searched for star forming regions around the galaxy NGC2865, a shell galaxy which is circled by a ring of HI, with a total mass of 1.2 x 10${}^9$ M${}_{\odot }$. Using the Multi-Slit Imaging Spectroscopy Technique with the Gemini telescope, we detected all H$\alpha$ emitting sources in the surroundings of the galaxy NGC2865, down to a flux limit of 10${}^{-18}$ erg cm${}^{-2}$ s${}^{-1}$ Å${}^{-1}$. Together with Near and Far-Ultraviolet flux information we characterize the star formation rates, masses, ages, and metallicities for these HII regions. In total, we found 26 emission-line sources in a 60 $\times$ 60 Kpc field centered over the southeastern tail of the HI gas present around the galaxy NGC2865. Out of the 26 H$\alpha$ emitters, 19 are in the satellite galaxy FGCE 0745 and seven are intergalactic HII regions scattered over the south tail of the HI gas around NGC2865. We found that the intergalactic HII regions are young ($<$200 Myr) with stellar masses in the range 4 X 10${}^3$M${}_{\odot }$ to 17x10${}^6$ M${}_{\odot }$. These are found in a region of low HI gas density, where the probability of forming stars is expected to be low. For one of the intergalactic HII regions we estimated a solar oxygen abundance of 12 + log(O/H) $\sim$ 8.7. We also were able to estimate the metallicity for the satellite galaxy FGCE0745 to be 12 + log(O/H) ~ 8.0.

arXiv comment13 pages, 13 figures, Accepted in A&A

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