Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
In this paper we present preliminary results from 21-cm line observations with the Very Large Array (VLA) of the southern barred spiral galaxies NGC 1365 and NGC 1097. Despite a wealth of theoretical models describing the gas flow in a non-axisymmetric bar potential (see Prendergast this volume), few observations of the HI distribution and motions in barred spiral galaxies exist. A notable exception is NGC 5383 (Sancisi et al. 1979). The observations we performed with the VLA are described below. The velocity resolution is 25 km sec−1. The angular resolution is 28″x20″, p.a. 20° for NGC 1365 and 30″x25″, p.a. 20° for NGC 1097. Velocities are heliocentric.