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most citedThe MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey I. Survey Overview and Highlights

130 citations · 591 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A MUSE and MeerKAT study of dynamics and star formation in HCG 16

Ixaka Labadie-García, Enrique Pérez, Julián Garrido +2

Context. Hickson Compact Groups (HCGs) present an ideal environment for studying galaxy interactions. HCG 16 is a group of five galaxies in an intermediate stage of evolution (Phas…

astro-ph.GA2026

The galactic HI-to-halo mass relation from isolated galaxies to cosmological hydrodynamic simulations

Marie Korsaga, Jonathan Freundlich, Benoit Famaey +15

The relation between HI and dark matter (DM) halo masses provides key insights into gas accretion and the regulation of galaxy formation. In a previous study based on SPARC and LIT…

astro-ph.GA2026

The molecular gas of four ram pressure stripped galaxies in the core of the Hydra I cluster

Clara C. de la Casa, Kelley M. Hess, Nikki Zabel +15

We present new CO(1-0) measurements from ALMA and new HI measurements from MeerKAT in four ram pressure stripped (RPS) galaxies in the core of the Hydra I cluster: NGC 3312, NGC 33…

astro-ph.GA2026

Angular momentum in isolated disc galaxies: Insights from TNG100

A. Sorgho, L. Verdes-Montenegro, M. Baes +5

Angular momentum is a fundamental property that shapes the evolution of disc galaxies, strongly influencing the internal mechanisms that regulate star formation. Its content within…

astro-ph.GA2026

The size of the HI disk across different environments: isolated, compact groups, clusters, and pairs

R. Ianjamasimanana, L. Verdes-Montenegro, K. M. Hess +8

The 21 cm line of atomic hydrogen (HI) is a sensitive tracer of the outer disk of galaxies, where environmental signatures are most apparent. The relative extent of HI disks compar…

astro-ph.GA2026

Resolved HI and Environmental Dynamics

M. Ramatsoku, P. Serra, N. Deg +8

Spatially resolved, deep HI observations from SKA precursors and pathfinders such as MeerKAT, FAST, and ASKAP have demonstrated their ability to reveal the complex interactions bet…

astro-ph.GA2026

Ram-pressure signatures in the dwarf irregular galaxy SextansB revealed by deep MeerKAT HI observations

Brenda Namumba, Neel Kolhe, Francois Hammer +12

The impact of extremely low-density environments such as the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) on the neutral gas distribution of dwarf galaxies remains poorly explored observatio…

astro-ph.GA2026

WALLABY pilot survey: Blinded by the light -- discovery of a fourth member in the ESO 179-013 system

Rayssa Guimarães Silva, Marco Grossi, Denise R. Gonçalves +12

We present new ASKAP/WALLABY HI observations of the nearby dwarf galaxy system ESO 179-013 (Kathryn's Wheel), the nearest known collisional ring galaxy, located 10 Mpc away in the…

astro-ph.GA2026

WLM: Dynamics of an isolated Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Under Ram Pressure in the Local Group

Neel Kolhe, Francois Hammer, Yanbin Yang +5

WLM is an archetypal dwarf irregular galaxy that has not experienced interactions with major Local Group galaxies within the past 8 Gyr. It has recently been shown that WLM is losi…

astro-ph.IM2026

Advanced computing for reproducibility of astronomy Big Data Science, with a showcase of AMIGA and the SKA Science prototype

Julián Garrido, Susana Sánchez, Edgar Ribeiro João +3

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) faces unprecedented technological challenges due to the vast scale and complexity of its data. This paper provides an overview of rese…

astro-ph.GA2025

Starburst galaxies in the Hydra I cluster

Clara C. de la Casa, Kelley M. Hess, Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro +10

We present a new catalog of 196 galaxies of the nearby Hydra I cluster out to 1.75, consisting of broad u,g,r,i,z along with narrowband H measurements. These…

astro-ph.IM2025

3D radio data visualisation in open science platforms for next-generation observatories

I. Labadie-García, J. Garrido, L. Verdes-Montenegro +4

Next-generation telescopes will bring groundbreaking discoveries but they will also present new technological challenges. The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will be one…

astro-ph.GA2025

MeerKAT view of Hickson Compact Groups: II. HI deficiency in the core and surrounding regions

A. Sorgho, L. Verdes-Montenegro, R. Ianjamasimanana +25

Hickson compact groups (HCGs) offer an ideal environment for investigating galaxy transformation as a result of interactions. It has been established that the evolutionary sequence…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

MeerKAT view of Hickson Compact Groups:I. Data description and release

R. Ianjamasimanana, L. Verdes-Montenegro, A. Sorgho +25

Context: Hickson Compact Groups (HCGs) are dense gravitationally-bound collections of 4-10 galaxies ideal for studying gas and star formation quenching processes. Aims: We aim to u…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The oblateness of dark matter halos of nearby galaxies and its correlation with gas mass fractions

Mousumi Das, Roger Ianjamasimanana, Stacy McGaugh +2

We present a method to measure the the oblateness parameter q of the dark matter halos of gas rich galaxies that have extended HI disks. We have applied our model to a sample of 20…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

Estimating the Oblateness Of Dark Matter Halos Using Neutral Hydrogen Velocity Dispersion

Mousumi Das, Roger Ianjamasimanana, Stacy S. McGaugh +2

We derive the oblateness parameter q of the dark matter halo of a sample of gas rich, face-on disk galaxies. We have assumed that the halos are triaxial in shape but their axes in…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

Evidence of ram pressure stripping of WLM, a dwarf galaxy far away from any large host galaxy

Yanbin Yang, Roger Ianjamasimanana, Francois Hammer +5

Dwarf galaxies are affected by all the evolutionary processes normally at work in galaxies of any mass. As fainter and less massive galaxies, however, dwarf galaxies are particular…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 8 cited

The extended HI halo of NGC 4945 as seen by MeerKAT

Roger Ianjamasimanana, B. S. Koribalski, Gyula I. G. Józsa +20

Observations of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) in the nuclear starburst galaxy NGC 4945 with MeerKAT are presented. We find a large amount of halo gas, previously missed by HI ob…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 130 cited

The MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey I. Survey Overview and Highlights

K. Knowles, W. D. Cotton, L. Rudnick +148

MeerKAT's large number of antennas, spanning 8 km with a densely packed 1 km core, create a powerful instrument for wide-area surveys, with high sensitivity over a wide range of an…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

MeerKAT-64 discovers wide-spread tidal debris in the nearby NGC 7232 galaxy group

Brenda Namumba, Baerbel Silvia Koribalski, Gyula I. G. Józsa +24

We report the discovery of large amounts of previously undetected cold neutral atomic hydrogen (\HI) around the core triplet galaxies in the nearby NGC~7232 galaxy group with MeerK…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 14 cited

MeerKAT-16 HI observation of the dIrr galaxy WLM

Roger Ianjamasimanana, Brenda Namumba, Athanaseus J. T. Ramaila +19

We present observations and models of the kinematics and the distribution of the neutral hydrogen (HI) in the isolated dwarf irregular galaxy, Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte (WLM). We obser…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

Filling the uv-gaps of the current VLBI network in Africa

Marcellin Atemkeng, Patrice M. Okouma, Eric Maina +2

In the African continent, South Africa has world-class astronomical facilities for advanced radio astronomy research. With the advent of the Square Kilometre Array project in South…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 35 cited

Tracing the Dynamical Mass in Galaxy Disks Using HI Velocity Dispersion and its Implications for the Dark Matter Distribution in Galaxies

Mousumi Das, Stacy McGaugh, Roger Ianjamasimanana +2

We present a method to derive the dynamical mass of face-on galaxy disks using their neutral hydrogen (HI) velocity dispersion. We have applied the method to nearby, gas rich galax…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 14 cited

Smooth HI Low Column Density Outskirts In Nearby Galaxies

Roger Ianjamasimanana, Fabian Walter, W. J. G. de Blok +2

The low column density gas at the outskirts of galaxies as traced by the 21 cm hydrogen line emission (HI) represents the interface between galaxies and the intergalactic medium, i…