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阿雷西博遗产快速ALFA(ALFALFA)河外HI巡天

The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) Extragalactic HI Survey

Martha P. Haynes, the ALFALFA Team

摘要:

阿雷西博遗产快速ALFA巡天计划(英语:Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey)是一个旨在对局部宇宙中具有宇宙学意义的区域内的高强度电离层天体进行普查的计划。当在3-4年内完成时,它将使用305米望远镜和七光束阿雷西博L波段馈源阵列(ALFA)覆盖7000平方度的高纬度天空。截至2008年5月1日,几乎60%的观测已经完成,25%的最终天空区域已经有了初步的星表。ALCARFA探测到的HI源数量是根据先前公布的HI质量函数预测的两倍,应该会提供一个超过25000个河外HI源的最终目录。阿尔法将探测数百个HI质量小于10**7.5太阳质量和类似的大于10**10.3 Msun的星系。其质心精度允许立即识别每个HI检测的高度可能的光学对应物。不到3%的河外HI源,以及< 1% of ones with HI masses >10**9.5 Msun无法与恒星对应物识别。数百个观测到的谱线宽度为20-30 km/s的HI源包括一群光学昏暗的矮星系。具有最高HI质量的物体表现出一系列的形态,光学颜色和表面亮度,但大多数似乎是大规模的磁盘系统。后者代表的人口可能占主导地位的未来研究HI在高红移。

英文摘要:

The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey is a program aimed at obtaining a census of HI-bearing objects over a cosmologically significant volume of the local universe. When complete in ~3-4 years, it will cover 7000 square degrees of high latitude sky using the 305m telescope and the seven-beam Arecibo L-band feed array (ALFA). As of May 1, 2008, almost 60% of the required observations are complete and a catalog exists in preliminary form for 25% of the final sky area. ALFALFA is detecting about twice as many HI sources as predicted based on previously published HI mass functions and should deliver a final catalog of >25000 extragalactic HI sources. ALFALFA will detect hundreds of galaxies with HI masses less than 10**7.5 solar masses and similarly large numbers greater than 10**10.3 Msun. Its centroiding accuracy allows for the immediate identification of highly probably optical counterparts to each HI detection. Fewer than 3% of all extragalactic HI sources, and < 1% of ones with HI masses > 10**9.5 Msun cannot be identified with a stellar counterpart. The hundreds of HI sources with observed line widths of 20-30 km/s include a population of optically faint dwarf galaxies. The objects with highest HI masses exhibit a range of morphologies, optical colors and surface brightnesses, but most appear to be massive disk systems. The latter represent the population likely to dominate future studies of HI at high redshift.

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