The most distant HI galaxies discovered by the 500 m dish FAST
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| author | Xi, Hongwei Peng, Bo Staveley-Smith, Lister For, Bi-Qing Liu, Bin Chen, Ru-Rong Yu, Lei Ding, Dejian Guo, Wei-Jian Zou, Hu Xue, Suijian Wang, Jing Brink, Thomas G. Zheng, WeiKang Filippenko, Alexei V. Yang, Yi Wei, Jianyan Dai, Y. Sophia Li, Zi-Jian He, Zizhao Jiang, Chengzi Moiseev, Alexei Kotov, Sergey |
| author_facet | Xi, Hongwei Peng, Bo Staveley-Smith, Lister For, Bi-Qing Liu, Bin Chen, Ru-Rong Yu, Lei Ding, Dejian Guo, Wei-Jian Zou, Hu Xue, Suijian Wang, Jing Brink, Thomas G. Zheng, WeiKang Filippenko, Alexei V. Yang, Yi Wei, Jianyan Dai, Y. Sophia Li, Zi-Jian He, Zizhao Jiang, Chengzi Moiseev, Alexei Kotov, Sergey |
| contents | Neutral hydrogen (HI) is the primary component of the cool interstellar medium (ISM) and is the reservoir of fuel for star formation. Owing to the sensitivity of existing radio telescopes, our understanding of the evolution of the ISM in galaxies remains limited, as it is based on only a few hundred galaxies detected in HI beyond the local Universe. With the high sensitivity of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we carried out a blind HI search, the FAST Ultra-Deep Survey (FUDS), which extends to redshifts up to 0.42 and a sensitivity of 50 $\rm μJy \cdot beam^{-1}$. Here, we report the first discovery of six galaxies in HI at $z>0.38$. For these galaxies, the FAST angular resolution of $\sim\,4'$ corresponds to a mean linear size of $\sim1.3\,h_{70}^{-1}\,$Mpc. These galaxies are among the most distant HI emission detections known, with one having the most massive HI content ($10^{10.93 \pm 0.04}~h_{70}^{-2}\, \rm M_\odot$). Using recent data from the DESI survey, and new observations with the Hale, BTA, and Keck telescopes, optical counterparts are detected for all galaxies within the 3-$σ$ positional uncertainty ($0.5\,h_{70}^{-1}\,$Mpc) and $\rm 200\,km \cdot s^{-1}$ in recession velocity. Assuming that the dominant source of HI is the identified optical counterpart, we find an evidence of evolution in the HI content of galaxies over the last 4.2 Gyr. Our new high-redshift HI galaxy sample provides the opportunity to better investigate the evolution of cool gas in galaxies. A larger sample size in the future will allow us to refine our knowledge of the formation and evolution of galaxies. |
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| spellingShingle | The most distant HI galaxies discovered by the 500 m dish FAST Xi, Hongwei Peng, Bo Staveley-Smith, Lister For, Bi-Qing Liu, Bin Chen, Ru-Rong Yu, Lei Ding, Dejian Guo, Wei-Jian Zou, Hu Xue, Suijian Wang, Jing Brink, Thomas G. Zheng, WeiKang Filippenko, Alexei V. Yang, Yi Wei, Jianyan Dai, Y. Sophia Li, Zi-Jian He, Zizhao Jiang, Chengzi Moiseev, Alexei Kotov, Sergey Astrophysics of Galaxies Neutral hydrogen (HI) is the primary component of the cool interstellar medium (ISM) and is the reservoir of fuel for star formation. Owing to the sensitivity of existing radio telescopes, our understanding of the evolution of the ISM in galaxies remains limited, as it is based on only a few hundred galaxies detected in HI beyond the local Universe. With the high sensitivity of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we carried out a blind HI search, the FAST Ultra-Deep Survey (FUDS), which extends to redshifts up to 0.42 and a sensitivity of 50 $\rm μJy \cdot beam^{-1}$. Here, we report the first discovery of six galaxies in HI at $z>0.38$. For these galaxies, the FAST angular resolution of $\sim\,4'$ corresponds to a mean linear size of $\sim1.3\,h_{70}^{-1}\,$Mpc. These galaxies are among the most distant HI emission detections known, with one having the most massive HI content ($10^{10.93 \pm 0.04}~h_{70}^{-2}\, \rm M_\odot$). Using recent data from the DESI survey, and new observations with the Hale, BTA, and Keck telescopes, optical counterparts are detected for all galaxies within the 3-$σ$ positional uncertainty ($0.5\,h_{70}^{-1}\,$Mpc) and $\rm 200\,km \cdot s^{-1}$ in recession velocity. Assuming that the dominant source of HI is the identified optical counterpart, we find an evidence of evolution in the HI content of galaxies over the last 4.2 Gyr. Our new high-redshift HI galaxy sample provides the opportunity to better investigate the evolution of cool gas in galaxies. A larger sample size in the future will allow us to refine our knowledge of the formation and evolution of galaxies. |
| title | The most distant HI galaxies discovered by the 500 m dish FAST |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00419 |