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光谱混乱:它对当前和未来河外HI巡天的影响

Spectroscopic Confusion: Its Impact on Current and Future Extragalactic HI Surveys

Michael G. Jones, Emmanouil Papastergis, Martha P. Haynes, Riccardo Giovanelli

摘要:

我们提出了一个全面的模型来预测HI调查中的光谱混淆率,并与现有调查中观察到的混淆表现出良好的一致性。一般来说,混淆对HI质量函数的作用被发现是抑制了“膝盖”以下的源的数量计数,并增强了它。这导致了偏差,即“膝盖”质量增加,微弱的端部斜率变陡。对于ALCARFA和HIPASS,我们发现该偏倚对Schechter拟合参数的最大影响与已发表的随机误差的幅度相似。另一方面,混淆对即将进行的中深度干涉测量的HI质量函数的影响将低于随机误差的水平。此外,我们发现,之前对即将到来的SKA前体望远镜探测数量的估计可能过于乐观,因为这里实施的框架导致之前预测的数量的60%到75%之间,同时准确地再现了现有调查的数量。最后,我们认为,任何未来的单碟,大面积调查HI星系将最适合于集中在本地宇宙(z < 0.05)的深度观测,因为混乱可能会阻止他们在更高的红移干涉测量的竞争力,而他们的较低的角分辨率允许他们的完整性更容易校准附近的扩展源。

英文摘要:

We present a comprehensive model to predict the rate of spectroscopic confusion in HI surveys, and demonstrate good agreement with the observable confusion in existing surveys. Generically the action of confusion on the HI mass function was found to be a suppression of the number count of sources below the `knee', and an enhancement above it. This results in a bias, whereby the `knee' mass is increased and the faint end slope is steepened. For ALFALFA and HIPASS we find that the maximum impact this bias can have on the Schechter fit parameters is similar in magnitude to the published random errors. On the other hand, the impact of confusion on the HI mass functions of upcoming medium depth interferometric surveys, will be below the level of the random errors. In addition, we find that previous estimates of the number of detections for upcoming surveys with SKA-precursor telescopes may have been too optimistic, as the framework implemented here results in number counts between 60% and 75% of those previously predicted, while accurately reproducing the counts of existing surveys. Finally, we argue that any future single dish, wide area surveys of HI galaxies would be best suited to focus on deep observations of the local Universe (z < 0.05), as confusion may prevent them from being competitive with interferometric surveys at higher redshift, while their lower angular resolution allows their completeness to be more easily calibrated for nearby extended sources.

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