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MERGERS OF GALAXIES FROM AN HI PERSPECTIVE

J. E. Hibbard


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Abstract. H I spectral line mapping studies are a unique probe of morphologically peculiar systems. Not only does HI imaging often reveal peculiarities that are totally unsuspected at optical wavelengths, but it opens a kinematic window into the outer dynamics of these systems that is unmatched at any other wavelength. In this review I attempt to summarize what we have learned from such studies, and what we may hope to learn from them in the future.


Key words: galaxies:interactions, galaxies:evolution


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