The molecular gas of four ram pressure stripped galaxies in the core of the Hydra I cluster — E8 Intelligence Research

We present new CO(1-0) measurements from ALMA and new HI measurements from MeerKAT in four ram pressure stripped (RPS) galaxies in the core of the Hydra I cluster: NGC 3312, NGC 3314a, NGC 3314b and LEDA 753342. These deep data, with compatible spatial resolution in CO and HI ($\sim15''$, $\sim$4 kpc), help increase the low statistics of galaxies observed in CO at extreme infall stage for probing how molecular and atomic gas behave under high ICM pressures. We studied the cold gas morphologies of these galaxies, and found asymmetries in their detected CO disks with respect to their HI and optical disks. No stripped CO was found in the tails, which could support the scenario that H$_2$ displays morphological and velocity asymmetries in the disks before being stripped. We then compared the H$_{2}$/HI ratios and H$_{2}$ vs. HI deficiencies between the four Hydra I galaxies, the xCOLDGASS sample dominated by field galaxies and VIVA-VERTICO Virgo RPS galaxies. LEDA 753342 ($\rm log~M_{\star Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com