Cambridge University Press (CUP), Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 1(16), p. 8-11, 1999
DOI: 10.1071/as99008
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AbstractThe HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) is a blind search for extragalactic neutral hydrogen, covering the whole of the southern sky. We present the latest HI mass function (HIMF) constructed from a sample of 263 galaxies with declinations <−62°. Standard Σ1/Vmax and maximum likelihood techniques are used in the analysis. No upturn in the low-mass end of the HIMF is yet seen, though our selection procedure presently conspires against the lowest-mass galaxies.