E+A Galaxies: Did They Lose The A to Become E?

De Rijcke, Sven; Michielsen, Dolf; Buyle, Pieter; Pisano, Daniel; Dejonghe, H; Freeman, Kenneth

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E+A Galaxies: Did They Lose The A to Become E?

Date

2007

Authors

De Rijcke, Sven

Michielsen, Dolf

Buyle, Pieter

Pisano, Daniel

Dejonghe, H

Freeman, Kenneth

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Abstract

We present deep HI observations of a sample of 9 nearby E+A galaxies (0.05 < z < 0.1). In 7 of them, we detected up to a few times 109 M of neutral gas, making the link between E+As and early-types less direct than previously thought.