Neutral Hydrogen Clouds near Early-Type Dwarf Galaxies of the Local Group

Abstract

Parkes neutral hydrogen 21 cm line (HI) observations of the surroundings of 9 early-type Local Group dwarfs are presented. We detected numerous HI clouds in the general direction of those dwarfs and these clouds are often offset from the optical center of the galaxies. Although all the observed dwarfs, except Antlia, occupy phase-space regions where the High-Velocity Cloud (HVC) density is well above average, the measured offsets are smaller than one would expect from a fully random cloud distribution. Possible association is detected for 11 of the 16 investigated clouds, while, for two galaxies, Sextans and Leo I, no HI was detected. The galaxies where HI clouds were found not to coincide with the optical, yet have a significant probability of being associated are: Sculptor dSph, Tucanna, LGS3, Cetus, and Fornax. If the clouds are indeed associated, these galaxies have HI masses of $M_{HI}=2\times 10^5{M}_{\odot }$, $M_{HI}=2\times 10^6{M}_{\odot }$, $M_{HI}=7\times 10^5{M}_{\odot }$, $M_{HI}=7\times 10^5{M}_{\odot }$, and $M_{HI}=1\times 10^5{M}_{\odot }$, respectively. However, neither ram pressure nor tidal stripping can easily explain the offsets. In some cases, large offsets are found where ram pressure should be the least effective.

Accepted in AJ, June 2006

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