Searching at 21-cm for IRAS galaxies behind the Milky Way.
Abstract
Based on far-infrared colours and fluxes, we selected 36 IRAS point sources, with galactic latitude |b| < 20^deg^ for study at 21-cm H I, with the Nancay 300-m telescope, as potential galaxies. Seven of them are shown to be galaxies with radial velocities less than 5000 km s^-1^. They appear to be normal galaxies, at rather large distances, with H I line profiles, H I masses. H I mass to luminosity ratios and line widths typical of Sb-Sc galaxies, except for one or possibly two irregulars. The extension of the criteria to larger FIR fluxes did not lead to the detection of nearby galaxies.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- August 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990A&A...235...41M
- Keywords:
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- Centimeter Waves;
- Infrared Astronomy Satellite;
- Infrared Sources (Astronomy);
- Irregular Galaxies;
- Milky Way Galaxy;
- Spiral Galaxies;
- Astronomical Catalogs;
- Far Infrared Radiation;
- H Lines;
- Radio Spectra;
- Spectral Line Width;
- Astrophysics