The role of neutral hydrogen in radio galaxies
arXiv:astro-ph/0701435 · doi:10.1016/j.newar.2006.11.024
Abstract
We present morphological and statistical results of a study of neutral hydrogen (HI) in a complete sample of nearby, non-cluster radio galaxies. We detect large-scale HI emission in the early-type host galaxies of 25% of our sample sources. The large-scale HI is mainly distributed in disk- and ring-like structures with sizes up to 190 kpc and masses up to 2 x 10^10 M_solar. All radio galaxies with M_HI >= 10^9 M_solar have a compact radio source. When we compare our sample of radio-loud early-type galaxies with samples of radio-quiet early-type galaxies there appears to be no significant difference in HI properties (mass, morphology and detection rate). This suggests that that the radio-loud phase could be just a short phase that occurs at some point during the life-time of many, or even all, early-type galaxies.
9 pages, 3 figures. To appear in proceedings of the conference: "The Fate of Gas in Galaxies", eds. Morganti, Oosterloo, Villar-Martin & van Gorkom, New Astron. Rev. (in press). A version with full resolution figures can be found at http://www.astro.rug.nl/~emonts/emonts_fateofgas_dec06.pdf
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