Optical identification of the FASHI sources: toward the extended Local Volume

Abstract

We extracted a list of 662 nearby (within $\sim 16$ Mpc) HI-detection sources from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) All Sky HI Survey (FASHI) and made a visual identification of them with optical counterpart. This inspection led to the discovery of 71 new dwarf galaxies. All of them are dwarf irregular galaxies with ongoing star formation. They are characterized by the following median parameters: visual magnitude of $g=17.8$ mag and color $(g-r)=0.29$ mag, HI-flux $S_{\mathrm{HI}}=718$ mJy km/s, HI-mass $M_{\mathrm{HI}}=3.7\times 10^7$ $M_{\odot }$, as well as the HI line-width of $W_{50}=37$ km/s.

Accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics