
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Oosterloo, Tom 
A1  - Sadler, Elaine 
A1  - Morganti, Raffaella 
T1  - HI in Early-Type Galaxies
JF  - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
JO  - Publ. Astron. Soc.  Aust.
Y1  - 1999
VL  - 16
IS  - 1
SP  - 28
EP  - 34
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AS99028 
N2  - We summarise the HI properties of early-type galaxies, in particular the differences in HI morphologies observed in early-type galaxies of different luminosities. We find that in low-luminosity early-type galaxies the HI is almost always in a disk-like structure, with central surface densities high enough for star formation to occur. In a few luminous early-type galaxies the HI is also in a disk or in a ring-like structure, but in most luminous early-type galaxies the HI has a relatively irregular morphology. The surface densities in the HI disks in luminous early-type galaxies are lower than in the HI disks in low-luminosity early-type galaxies and no large-scale star formation should occur in these disks. We discuss these different HI characteristics in the context of other properties of early-type galaxies that correlate with luminosity. 
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