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VLA HI深空试验

A Pilot for a VLA HI Deep Field

Ximena Fernández, J. H. van Gorkom, Kelley M. Hess, D. J. Pisano, Kathryn Kreckel, Emmanuel Momjian, Attila Popping, Tom Oosterloo, Laura Chomiuk, M. A. W. Verh… 展开作者

Ximena Fernández, J. H. van Gorkom, Kelley M. Hess, D. J. Pisano, Kathryn Kreckel, Emmanuel Momjian, Attila Popping, Tom Oosterloo, Laura Chomiuk, M. A. W. Verheijen, Patricia A. Henning, David Schiminovich, Matthew A. Bershady, Eric M. Wilcots, Nick Scoville

摘要:

高分辨率21厘米HI深场提供了不同红移的空间和运动学分辨的中性气体图,这是理解宇宙时间内星系演化和测试宇宙学模拟预测的关键。在这里,我们提出的结果,从一个试点的COSMOS HI大型河外星系调查(智利)完成的卡尔G。Jansky甚大阵列(VLA)我们利用望远镜新扩展的能力,在一次观测中探测红移区间0<z<0.193。我们对COSMOS场进行了50小时的观测,该场包含413个星系,在34'× 34'的成像视场和观测到的红移间隔内有光谱红移。我们已经在33个星系中探测到中性氢气,这些星系处于不同的环境中,跨越了探测到的红移范围,其中包括三个没有以前已知的光谱红移的星系。探测到的有一系列的HI和恒星质量,表明我们正在探测的星系的多样性。我们讨论的意见,数据减少,结果和突出有趣的检测。我们发现VLA的B阵列是HI深场的理想配置,因为它的长间距减轻了RFI。该试验表明VLA已准备好进行此类调查,并作为与其他SKA探路者计划的未来HI深场的测试。

英文摘要:

High-resolution 21-cm HI deep fields provide spatially and kinematically resolved neutral gas maps at different redshifts, which are key to understanding galaxy evolution across cosmic time and testing predictions of cosmological simulations. Here we present results from a pilot for the COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey (CHILES) done with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). We take advantage of the newly expanded capabilities of the telescope to probe the redshift interval 0<z<0.193 in one observation. We observe the COSMOS field for 50 hours, which contains 413 galaxies with optical spectroscopic redshifts in the imaged field of view of 34' x 34' and the observed redshift interval. We have detected neutral hydrogen gas in 33 galaxies in different environments spanning the probed redshift range, including three without a previously known spectroscopic redshift. The detections have a range of HI and stellar masses, indicating the diversity of galaxies we are probing. We discuss the observations, data reduction, results and highlight interesting detections. We find that the VLA's B-array is the ideal configuration for HI deep fields since its long spacings mitigate RFI. This pilot shows that the VLA is ready to carry out such a survey, and serves as a test for future HI deep fields planned with other SKA pathfinders.

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