Abstract:
This project aims to image a subset of galaxies in the nearby
Eridanus group in H I emission and in radio continuum using the GMRl'. The
typical resolution of H I images will be ",1 kpc with a 30" sensitivity to H I mass
of a few times 107 M0 • The rotation curves obtained using the H I velocity
field together with the 2MASS magnitudes in the near infrared will be used to
construct the 'lUlly-Fisher relation for this group. High resolution (sub-kpc)
multi-frequency radio continuum images will be used to study star-formation
rates, radio morphologies and spectral indices of Eridanus galaxies. About half
of the galaxies have already been observed and further observations on some
late type galaxies are proposed with the GMRI'. We present here the H I image
and the rotation curve for a member of this group viz. NGC 1385.
