10.5281/zenodo.1481548
https://zenodo.org/records/1481548
oai:zenodo.org:1481548
Murugeshan, Chandrashekar
Chandrashekar
Murugeshan
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
Kilborn, Virginia
Virginia
Kilborn
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
Obreschkow, Danail
Danail
Obreschkow
0000-0002-1527-0762
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), M468, University of Western Australia, WA 6009, Australia
Glazebrook, Karl
Karl
Glazebrook
0000-0002-3254-9044
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
Lutz, Katharina
Katharina
Lutz
Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR 7550, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Dzudzar, Robert
Robert
Dzudzar
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
Dénes, Helga
Helga
Dénes
0000-0002-9214-8613
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
Does Angular Momentum Regulate the Atomic Gas Content in HI-deficient Spirals?
Zenodo
2018
2018-11-09
10.5281/zenodo.1481547
https://zenodo.org/communities/astronomy-general
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
The neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) content of spiral galaxies has been observed to vary with environment, with spirals residing in high-density environments being more HI-deficient. This can been explained by environmental effects such as ram pressure stripping and tidal interactions, which remove HI from the discs of galaxies. However, some spirals in low-density environments have also been observed to have relatively low HI mass fractions. The low densities of the Intra Galactic Medium and lack of nearby galaxies in such environments make ram pressure stripping and tidal interactions unlikely candidates of gas removal. What then could be making these spirals HI deficient? In this work, we show that for a sample of HI-deficient spirals from low-density environments, their specific angular momentum influences their HI gas content through its ability to regulate global star formation in their discs. We find that our sample of HI-deficient galaxies consistently follow the model predicted by Obreschkow et al., where the atomic gas fraction, in a symmetric equilibrium disc is a function of the global atomic stability parameter q, which depends on specific angular momentum.