The First Large Absorption Survey in HI (FLASH): II. Pilot Survey data release and first results
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| author | Yoon, Hyein Sadler, Elaine M. Mahony, Elizabeth K. Aditya, J. N. H. S. Allison, James R. Glowacki, Marcin Kerrison, Emily F. Moss, Vanessa A. Su, Renzhi Weng, Simon Whiting, Matthew Wong, O. Ivy Callingham, Joseph R. Curran, Stephen J. Darling, Jeremy Edge, Alastair C. Ellison, Sara L. Emig, Kimberly L. Garratt-Smithson, Lilian German, Gordon Grasha, Kathryn Koribalski, Baerbel S. Morganti, Raffaella Oosterloo, Tom Péroux, Céline Pettini, Max Pimbblet, Kevin A. Zheng, Zheng Zwaan, Martin Ball, Lewis Bock, Douglas C. -J. Brodrick, David Bunton, John D. Cooray, F. R. Edwards, Philip G. Hayman, Douglas B. Hotan, Aidan W. Lee-Waddell, K. McClure-Griffiths, N. M. Ng, A. Phillips, Chris J. Raja, Wasim Voronkov, Maxim A. Westmeier, Tobias |
| author_facet | Yoon, Hyein Sadler, Elaine M. Mahony, Elizabeth K. Aditya, J. N. H. S. Allison, James R. Glowacki, Marcin Kerrison, Emily F. Moss, Vanessa A. Su, Renzhi Weng, Simon Whiting, Matthew Wong, O. Ivy Callingham, Joseph R. Curran, Stephen J. Darling, Jeremy Edge, Alastair C. Ellison, Sara L. Emig, Kimberly L. Garratt-Smithson, Lilian German, Gordon Grasha, Kathryn Koribalski, Baerbel S. Morganti, Raffaella Oosterloo, Tom Péroux, Céline Pettini, Max Pimbblet, Kevin A. Zheng, Zheng Zwaan, Martin Ball, Lewis Bock, Douglas C. -J. Brodrick, David Bunton, John D. Cooray, F. R. Edwards, Philip G. Hayman, Douglas B. Hotan, Aidan W. Lee-Waddell, K. McClure-Griffiths, N. M. Ng, A. Phillips, Chris J. Raja, Wasim Voronkov, Maxim A. Westmeier, Tobias |
| contents | The First Large Absorption Survey in HI (FLASH) is a large-area radio survey for neutral hydrogen in the redshift range 0.4<z<1.0, using the 21cm HI absorption line as a probe of cold neutral gas. FLASH uses the ASKAP radio telescope and is the first large 21cm absorption survey to be carried out without any optical preselection of targets. We use an automated Bayesian line-finding tool to search through large datasets and assign a statistical significance to potential line detections. Two Pilot Surveys, covering around 3000 deg$^2$ of sky, were carried out in 2019-22 to test and verify the strategy for the full FLASH survey. The processed data from these Pilot Surveys (spectral-line cubes, continuum images, and catalogues) are available online. Here, we describe the FLASH spectral-line and continuum data and discuss the quality of the HI spectra and the completeness of our automated line search. Finally, we present a set of 30 new HI absorption lines that were robustly detected in the Pilot Surveys. These lines span a wide range in HI optical depth, including three lines with a peak optical depth $τ>1$, and appear to be a mixture of intervening and associated systems. Interestingly, around two-thirds of the lines found in this untargeted sample are detected against sources with a peaked-spectrum radio continuum, which are only a minor (5-20%) fraction of the overall radio-source population. The overall detection rate for HI absorption lines in the Pilot Surveys (0.3 to 0.5 lines per ASKAP field) is a factor of two below the expected value. One possible reason for this is the presence of a range of spectral-line artefacts in the Pilot Survey data that have now been mitigated and are not expected to recur in the full FLASH survey. A future paper will discuss the host galaxies of the HI absorption systems identified here. |
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| spellingShingle | The First Large Absorption Survey in HI (FLASH): II. Pilot Survey data release and first results Yoon, Hyein Sadler, Elaine M. Mahony, Elizabeth K. Aditya, J. N. H. S. Allison, James R. Glowacki, Marcin Kerrison, Emily F. Moss, Vanessa A. Su, Renzhi Weng, Simon Whiting, Matthew Wong, O. Ivy Callingham, Joseph R. Curran, Stephen J. Darling, Jeremy Edge, Alastair C. Ellison, Sara L. Emig, Kimberly L. Garratt-Smithson, Lilian German, Gordon Grasha, Kathryn Koribalski, Baerbel S. Morganti, Raffaella Oosterloo, Tom Péroux, Céline Pettini, Max Pimbblet, Kevin A. Zheng, Zheng Zwaan, Martin Ball, Lewis Bock, Douglas C. -J. Brodrick, David Bunton, John D. Cooray, F. R. Edwards, Philip G. Hayman, Douglas B. Hotan, Aidan W. Lee-Waddell, K. McClure-Griffiths, N. M. Ng, A. Phillips, Chris J. Raja, Wasim Voronkov, Maxim A. Westmeier, Tobias Astrophysics of Galaxies The First Large Absorption Survey in HI (FLASH) is a large-area radio survey for neutral hydrogen in the redshift range 0.4<z<1.0, using the 21cm HI absorption line as a probe of cold neutral gas. FLASH uses the ASKAP radio telescope and is the first large 21cm absorption survey to be carried out without any optical preselection of targets. We use an automated Bayesian line-finding tool to search through large datasets and assign a statistical significance to potential line detections. Two Pilot Surveys, covering around 3000 deg$^2$ of sky, were carried out in 2019-22 to test and verify the strategy for the full FLASH survey. The processed data from these Pilot Surveys (spectral-line cubes, continuum images, and catalogues) are available online. Here, we describe the FLASH spectral-line and continuum data and discuss the quality of the HI spectra and the completeness of our automated line search. Finally, we present a set of 30 new HI absorption lines that were robustly detected in the Pilot Surveys. These lines span a wide range in HI optical depth, including three lines with a peak optical depth $τ>1$, and appear to be a mixture of intervening and associated systems. Interestingly, around two-thirds of the lines found in this untargeted sample are detected against sources with a peaked-spectrum radio continuum, which are only a minor (5-20%) fraction of the overall radio-source population. The overall detection rate for HI absorption lines in the Pilot Surveys (0.3 to 0.5 lines per ASKAP field) is a factor of two below the expected value. One possible reason for this is the presence of a range of spectral-line artefacts in the Pilot Survey data that have now been mitigated and are not expected to recur in the full FLASH survey. A future paper will discuss the host galaxies of the HI absorption systems identified here. |
| title | The First Large Absorption Survey in HI (FLASH): II. Pilot Survey data release and first results |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06626 |