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We have mapped NGC 3718, a nearby bright galaxy in a loose group, and itscompanion NGC 3729 in the 21cm line of neutral hydrogen. NGC 3718 is astrikingly unusual galaxy with a strong straight dust lane across the center,peculiar diffuse spiral arms, and an extended disk of neutral hydrogen. Earlierwork showed the gas disk to be strongly twisted, warping through edge-on wherewe see the straight dust lane; stars formed in this gas appear to make up the'spiral arms'. Our improved maps show a twisted but bisymmetric disk of gasextending to 7arcmin or 35kpc, where the orbital period is roughly 1Gyr. It issurrounded by fragmentary spiral features, and a streamer of gas extending to acloud lying 12arcmin or 60kpc to the north. We use INSPECTOR, a task in GIPSY,to fit a tilted-ring model interactively to slices through the HI data cube.The apparent major axis swings through 100 degrees from the innermost gasorbits at 30arcsec radius to the outer edge. When viewed in the reference frameof the galaxy's stellar disk, the innermost gas orbits are nearly polar, whilethe outer rings of gas are tilted at 30-40 degrees. The line of nodes, wherethe gas orbits pass through the plane of the stellar disk, twists by roughly 90degrees about the pole. We do not see gas orbiting in the plane of the stellardisk. If we assume that the galaxy's dark halo shares the same midplane, thenthe observed twist can be explained by differential precession in a dynamicalmodel in which the dark halo is fairly round. The run of tilt with radius isclose to what is required for the warped gas disk to precess rigidly in thegalaxy's gravitational field without changing its shape. This fact probablyaccounts for the longevity of the twisted structure.

The remarkable warped and twisted gas disk in NGC 3718