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HI-MaNGA

Overview

HI-MaNGA is a 21cm follow-up program for the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey [1], a survey of 10,010 unique galaxies with an Integral Field Unit (for resolved optical spectroscopy). The primary goal of HI-MaNGA is to observe all z<0.05 MaNGA galaxies with the Green Bank Telescope which lack HI data from other sources.

HI-MaNGA provides valuable information about the cold gas content of galaxies, which can help to address several of MaNGA’s key science questions: (1) How does gas accretion drive the growth of galaxies? (2) What are the relative roles of stellar accretion, major mergers, and instabilities in forming galactic bulges and ellipticals? (3) What quenches star formation? What external forces affect star formation in groups and clusters? (4) How was angular momentum distributed among baryonic and non-baryonic components as the galaxy formed, and how do various mass components assemble and influence one another?

Example HI spectra (right) of three MaNGA galaxies

Survey Status

A summary of past and ongoing observing programs, as well as the status of the data, is as follows:

Data Access

DR3.1

DR3

DR2

DR1

Publications

The following is an incomplete list of papers which use HI-MaNGA data:

Team

(Team members who contributed to data reduction as undergraduates in italics)