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HI Absorption in NGC 4945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

J. B. Whiteoak  and
F. F. Gardner
J. B. Whiteoak
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney
F. F. Gardner
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney
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NGC 4945 is a ninth-magnitude southern galaxy orientated almost edge-on to the line-of-sight. De Vaucouleurs and de Vaucouleurs (1964) list its classification as SB(s)cd and its optical dimensions as 17’ x 3’ arc. It is of particular interest because 18 cm OH and 6 cm H2CO absorption has been detected (Whiteoak and Gardner 1973; Gardner and Whiteoak 1974) in molecular clouds in this galaxy which overlie the small-diameter radio source located near the nucleus. In reporting the detection of the OH absorption we suggested that the HI profile in the direction of the nucleus was affected by HI absorption. In this paper we describe a study of the HI distribution which substantiates this conclusion.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , September 1976 , pp. 71 - 72
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1976

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