Environmental effects on the atomic gas content of galaxies in the local universe

Effects of galaxy environment on its cold gas content are studied in detail using different date sets and statistics. These include measuring the clustering of galaxies as a function of their Hi mass fraction, quantifying the depletion of Hi gas content of cluster galaxies as a function of cluster-centric radius, and comparing the dependence of environmental density on galaxy star formation rate with the dependence on Hi gas mass fraction. Results from these studies are all consistent with a picture in which ram-pressure stripping may play an important role in removing atomic gas from the outer disks of low mass satellite galaxies.