Description
We present the HIPASS Bright Galaxy Catalog (BGC), which contains the 1000 HI brightest galaxies in the southern sky as obtained from the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS, Cat. <VIII/73>). The selection of the brightest sources is based on their HI peak flux density (S_peak_>~116mJy) as measured from the spatially integrated HIPASS spectrum. The derived HI masses range from ~10^7^ to 4x10^10^M_Sun_. While the BGC (z<0.03) is complete in S_peak_, only a subset of ~500 sources can be considered complete in integrated HI flux density (F_HI_>~25Jy.km/s). The HIPASS BGC contains a total of 158 new redshifts. These belong to 91 new sources for which no optical or infrared counterparts have previously been catalogued, an additional 51 galaxies for which no redshifts were previously known, and 16 galaxies for which the catalogued optical velocities disagree.
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