Evolution of compact groups from intermediate to final stages. A case study of the HI content of HCG 16

MGJ is supported by a Juan de la Cierva formacion fellowship. We also acknowledge support from the grants AYA2015-65973-C3-1-R and RTI2018-096228-B-C31 (MINECO/FEDER, UE). This work has been supported by the Spanish Science Ministry >Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa> program under grant SEV-2017-0709. MGJ wishes to thank B. Koribalski, K. Lee-Waddell, and S. Cazzoli for helpful discussions. We also thank the referee for his thorough comments which helped to improve this paper. This project used archival data from the VLA. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. This project used data obtained with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was constructed by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration (full acknowledgement at legacysurvey.org/acknowledgment). This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We also acknowledge the use of the HyperLeda database (Makarov et al. 2014). This research made use of APLpy, an open-source plotting package for Python (Robitaille & Bressert 2012; Robitaille 2019), astropy (Astropy Collaboration 2013, 2018), Aladin (Bonnarel et al. 2000), mayavi (Ramachandran & Varoquaux 2011), and SAOImageDS9 (Joye & Mandel 2003).