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HI in Elliptical Galaxies

Elaine M. Sadler
School of Physics
University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
ems@physics.usyd.edu.au

Abstract:

Traditional HI surveys of optically-selected elliptical galaxies are time-consuming, and have a low detection rate. The forthcoming Parkes HI multibeam survey offers the exciting possibility of surveying more than 10,000 nearby elliptical galaxies for HI. I argue that this is likely to result in the detection of a large population of small, HI-rich elliptical galaxies which have not previously been studied in any systematic way.

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