DESI Spectroscopy of HETDEX Emission-line Candidates I: Line Discrimination Validation
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| author | Landriau, Martin Cooper, Erin Mentuch Davis, Dustin Gebhardt, Karl Ciardullo, Robin Armengaud, Éric Dey, Arjun Raichoor, Anand Schlegel, David J. Wilson, Michael Aguilar, J. Ahlen, S. Bianchi, D. Brooks, D. Claybaugh, T. de la Macorra, A. Ferraro, S. Forero-Romero, J. E. Gaztañaga, E. Gontcho, S. Gontcho A Gutierrez, G. Hahn, C. Honscheid, K. Howlett, C. Ishak, M. Juneau, S. Kehoe, R. Kisner, T. Kremin, Anthony Guillou, L. Le Levi, Michael E. Manera, M. Meisner, A. Miquel, R. Moustakas, J. Nadathur, S. Pérez-Ràfols, I. Poppett, C. Prada, F. Rossi, G. Sanchez, E. Schubnell, M. Sprayberry, D. Tarlé, G. Weaver, B. A. Zhou, R. Zou, H. Farrow, Daniel J. Hill, Gary J. Jeong, Donghui Liu, Chenxu Saito, Shun Schneider, Donald P. |
| author_facet | Landriau, Martin Cooper, Erin Mentuch Davis, Dustin Gebhardt, Karl Ciardullo, Robin Armengaud, Éric Dey, Arjun Raichoor, Anand Schlegel, David J. Wilson, Michael Aguilar, J. Ahlen, S. Bianchi, D. Brooks, D. Claybaugh, T. de la Macorra, A. Ferraro, S. Forero-Romero, J. E. Gaztañaga, E. Gontcho, S. Gontcho A Gutierrez, G. Hahn, C. Honscheid, K. Howlett, C. Ishak, M. Juneau, S. Kehoe, R. Kisner, T. Kremin, Anthony Guillou, L. Le Levi, Michael E. Manera, M. Meisner, A. Miquel, R. Moustakas, J. Nadathur, S. Pérez-Ràfols, I. Poppett, C. Prada, F. Rossi, G. Sanchez, E. Schubnell, M. Sprayberry, D. Tarlé, G. Weaver, B. A. Zhou, R. Zou, H. Farrow, Daniel J. Hill, Gary J. Jeong, Donghui Liu, Chenxu Saito, Shun Schneider, Donald P. |
| contents | The Hobby-Eberly Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an untargeted spectroscopic galaxy survey that uses Ly$α$ emitting galaxies (LAEs) as tracers of 1.9 < z < 3.5 large scale structure. Most detections consist of a single emission line, whose identity is inferred via a Bayesian analysis of ancillary data. To determine the accuracy of these line identifications, HETDEX detections were observed with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). In two DESI pointings, high confidence spectroscopic redshifts are obtained for 1157 sources, including 982 LAEs. The DESI spectra are used to evaluate the accuracy of the HETDEX object classifications, and tune the methodology to achieve the HETDEX science requirement of $\lesssim 2\%$ contamination of the LAE sample by low-redshift emission-line galaxies, while still assigning $96\%$ of the true Ly$α$ emission sample with the correct spectroscopic redshift. We compare emission line measurements between the two experiments assuming a simple Gaussian line fitting model. Fitted values for the central wavelength of the emission line, the measured line flux and line widths are consistent between the surveys within uncertainties. Derived spectroscopic redshifts, from the two classification pipelines, when both agree as an LAE classification, are consistent to within $\langle Δz / (1 + z) \rangle = 6.9\times 10^{-5}$ with an rms scatter of $3.3\times 10^{-4}$. |
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| spellingShingle | DESI Spectroscopy of HETDEX Emission-line Candidates I: Line Discrimination Validation Landriau, Martin Cooper, Erin Mentuch Davis, Dustin Gebhardt, Karl Ciardullo, Robin Armengaud, Éric Dey, Arjun Raichoor, Anand Schlegel, David J. Wilson, Michael Aguilar, J. Ahlen, S. Bianchi, D. Brooks, D. Claybaugh, T. de la Macorra, A. Ferraro, S. Forero-Romero, J. E. Gaztañaga, E. Gontcho, S. Gontcho A Gutierrez, G. Hahn, C. Honscheid, K. Howlett, C. Ishak, M. Juneau, S. Kehoe, R. Kisner, T. Kremin, Anthony Guillou, L. Le Levi, Michael E. Manera, M. Meisner, A. Miquel, R. Moustakas, J. Nadathur, S. Pérez-Ràfols, I. Poppett, C. Prada, F. Rossi, G. Sanchez, E. Schubnell, M. Sprayberry, D. Tarlé, G. Weaver, B. A. Zhou, R. Zou, H. Farrow, Daniel J. Hill, Gary J. Jeong, Donghui Liu, Chenxu Saito, Shun Schneider, Donald P. Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics The Hobby-Eberly Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an untargeted spectroscopic galaxy survey that uses Ly$α$ emitting galaxies (LAEs) as tracers of 1.9 < z < 3.5 large scale structure. Most detections consist of a single emission line, whose identity is inferred via a Bayesian analysis of ancillary data. To determine the accuracy of these line identifications, HETDEX detections were observed with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). In two DESI pointings, high confidence spectroscopic redshifts are obtained for 1157 sources, including 982 LAEs. The DESI spectra are used to evaluate the accuracy of the HETDEX object classifications, and tune the methodology to achieve the HETDEX science requirement of $\lesssim 2\%$ contamination of the LAE sample by low-redshift emission-line galaxies, while still assigning $96\%$ of the true Ly$α$ emission sample with the correct spectroscopic redshift. We compare emission line measurements between the two experiments assuming a simple Gaussian line fitting model. Fitted values for the central wavelength of the emission line, the measured line flux and line widths are consistent between the surveys within uncertainties. Derived spectroscopic redshifts, from the two classification pipelines, when both agree as an LAE classification, are consistent to within $\langle Δz / (1 + z) \rangle = 6.9\times 10^{-5}$ with an rms scatter of $3.3\times 10^{-4}$. |
| title | DESI Spectroscopy of HETDEX Emission-line Candidates I: Line Discrimination Validation |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02229 |