Neutral hydrogen in nearby elliptical and lenticular galaxies: the continuing formation of early-type galaxies

Abstract

(Abridged) We present deep WSRT observations of neutral hydrogen in 12 nearby elliptical and lenticular galaxies. The selected objects come from a representative sample of nearby galaxies earlier studied at optical wavelengths with the integral-field spectrograph Sauron. We detect HI - both in regular discs as well as in clouds and tails off-set from the host galaxy - in 70% of the galaxies. This detection rate is much higher than in previous, shallower single-dish surveys, and is similar to that for the ionised gas. The results suggest that at faint detection levels the presence of HI is a relatively common characteristic of field early-type galaxies. The observed total HI masses range between a few times 10^6 Msun to just over 10^9 Msun. The presence of regular disc-like structures is a situation as common as HI in offset clouds and tails around early-type galaxies. All galaxies where HI is detected also contain ionised gas, whereas no HI is found around galaxies without ionised gas. Galaxies with regular HI discs tend to have strong emission from ionised gas. In these cases, the similar kinematics of the neutral hydrogen and ionised gas suggest that they form one structure. We do not find a clear trend between the presence of HI and the global age of the stellar population or the global dynamical characteristics of the galaxies. Our observations support the idea that gas accretion is common and does not happen exclusively in peculiar early-type galaxies. For the majority of the cases the gas is likely acquired through merging, but the lack of correlation with the stellar population age suggests that smooth, cold accretion could be an alternative scenario, at least in some galaxies. In either cases, the data suggest that early-type galaxies continue to build their mass up to the present.

13 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS. A version with full resolution figures is available at http://www.astron.nl/~morganti/Papers/SauronHI.pdf

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