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author Mentuch Cooper, Erin
Gebhardt, Karl
Davis, Dustin
Liu, Chenxu
Castanheira, Barbara
Chase, Owen
Chávez Ortiz, Óscar A.
Ciardullo, Robin
Curtis, Olivia
Dunne, Delaney
Evans, Neal
Farrow, Daniel
Fabricius, Maximilian
Finkelstein, Steven
Gronwall, Caryl
Hamme, Nate
Hill, Gary
House, Lindsay
Jarvis, Matt
Jeong, Donghui
Kelz, Andreas
Komatsu, Eiichiro
Mirza Khanlari, Mahan
Khoraminezhad, Hasti
Kollatschny, Wolfram
Lujan Niemeyer, Maja
Lee, Hanshin
MacQueen, Phillip
MITRA, DEESHANI
Mukae, Shiro
Ouchi, Masami
Poppe, Jennifer
Powell, Meredith
Qezlou, Mahdi
Saito, Shun
Schneider, Donald
Weiss, Laurel
Wisotzki, Lutz
Zeimann, Gregory
author_facet Mentuch Cooper, Erin
Gebhardt, Karl
Davis, Dustin
Liu, Chenxu
Castanheira, Barbara
Chase, Owen
Chávez Ortiz, Óscar A.
Ciardullo, Robin
Curtis, Olivia
Dunne, Delaney
Evans, Neal
Farrow, Daniel
Fabricius, Maximilian
Finkelstein, Steven
Gronwall, Caryl
Hamme, Nate
Hill, Gary
House, Lindsay
Jarvis, Matt
Jeong, Donghui
Kelz, Andreas
Komatsu, Eiichiro
Mirza Khanlari, Mahan
Khoraminezhad, Hasti
Kollatschny, Wolfram
Lujan Niemeyer, Maja
Lee, Hanshin
MacQueen, Phillip
MITRA, DEESHANI
Mukae, Shiro
Ouchi, Masami
Poppe, Jennifer
Powell, Meredith
Qezlou, Mahdi
Saito, Shun
Schneider, Donald
Weiss, Laurel
Wisotzki, Lutz
Zeimann, Gregory
contents <p>The HETDEX Source Catalog 2 (HPSC2) is part of the HETDEX Public Data Release 1 (PDR1), providing a large, uniformly processed catalog of sources detected in the completed Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX).</p> <p>HETDEX is a wide-field, integral-field spectroscopic survey designed to map the large-scale distribution of Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) at 1.88 < z < 3.52. The survey uses the VIRUS instrument on the Hobby–Eberly Telescope to obtain over one hundred thousand spectra per exposure, enabling an untargeted census of emission-line galaxies.</p> <p>HPSC2 includes classifications, redshifts, and spectra for over one million sources, including 426,654 Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs), 491,411 [O II] emitters, 150,608 stars, 19,457 low-redshift galaxies (LzG), and 18,303 AGN. The catalog is constructed from PSF-weighted spectral extractions and includes machine-learning classifications and quality metrics.</p> <p>It is organised into two complementary tables. The <em>Source Observation Table</em> provides one row per unique source observation, restricted to sources passing the primary catalog quality cuts (p_conf ≥ 0.5 and p_cnn ≥ 0.5). The <em>Detection Information Table</em> is the expanded catalog with one row per emission-line or continuum detection, including detections below the primary threshold. Several detections can comprise a single source observation.</p> <h3>Data Repository Contents</h3> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td>Filename</td> <td>Description</td> </tr> <tr> <td>hetdex_sc2_v1.5.fits</td> <td>Source Observation Table (FITS) - Main Catalog. Contains a sub-selection of p_conf ≥ 0.5 and p_cnn ≥ 0.5 emission-line candidates. Note continuum (det_type='cont') sources have sn=0 so be careful selecting on this column.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>hetdex_sc2_v1.5.dat</td> <td>Source Observation Table (ASCII)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>hetdex_sc2_spec_v1.5.fits</td> <td> <p>Source Observation Table + 1D Spectra (FITS);</p> <p>HDUs: INFO, SPEC, SPEC_ERR, WAVELENGTH</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>hetdex_sc2_detinfo_v1.5.fits</td> <td>Detection Information Table (FITS)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>hetdex_sc2_detinfo_v1.5.dat</td> <td>Detection Information Table (ASCII)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>readme</td> <td>Full column descriptions for both tables</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10-HETDEX-Source-Catalog.ipynb</td> <td>A Jupyter notebook demonstrating how to work with this catalog</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Bad values are -999.0 for floating-point columns and 'n/a' for string columns.</p> <p>HETDEX Data Access Description is provided at:<br><a href="https://hetdex.org/data-results/">https://hetdex.org/data-results/</a></p> <p>Full PDR1 data products (including IFU datacubes) are available at:<br><a href="https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/hetdex/HETDEX/pdr/pdr1/">https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/hetdex/HETDEX/pdr/pdr1/</a></p> <p>Datacube access and analysis tools:<br><a href="https://github.com/HETDEX/dexcube">https://github.com/HETDEX/dexcube</a></p> <h3>Preferred Citation & Acknowledgements</h3> <p>If you use this catalog, please cite:</p> <blockquote> <p>Mentuch Cooper et al. 2026, ApJS, XXX, XXX doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ae6068">10.3847/1538-4365/ae6068</a><br>Gebhardt et al. 2021, ApJ, 923, 217 doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2e03">10.3847/1538-4357/ac2e03</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Please include the following acknowledgement when using HETDEX data:</p> <blockquote> <p>HETDEX is led by the University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory and Department of Astronomy with participation from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Texas A&M University, Pennsylvania State University, Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen, The University of Oxford, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), The University of Tokyo and Missouri University of Science and Technology.</p> <p>Based on observations obtained with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), which is a joint project of the University of Texas at Austin, the Pennsylvania State University, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitaet Muenchen, and Georg-August Universitaet Goettingen. The HET is named in honor of its principal benefactors, William P. Hobby and Robert E. Eberly.</p> </blockquote>
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spellingShingle HETDEX Public Source Catalog 2 (HPSC2) from HETDEX Public Data Release 1
Mentuch Cooper, Erin
Gebhardt, Karl
Davis, Dustin
Liu, Chenxu
Castanheira, Barbara
Chase, Owen
Chávez Ortiz, Óscar A.
Ciardullo, Robin
Curtis, Olivia
Dunne, Delaney
Evans, Neal
Farrow, Daniel
Fabricius, Maximilian
Finkelstein, Steven
Gronwall, Caryl
Hamme, Nate
Hill, Gary
House, Lindsay
Jarvis, Matt
Jeong, Donghui
Kelz, Andreas
Komatsu, Eiichiro
Mirza Khanlari, Mahan
Khoraminezhad, Hasti
Kollatschny, Wolfram
Lujan Niemeyer, Maja
Lee, Hanshin
MacQueen, Phillip
MITRA, DEESHANI
Mukae, Shiro
Ouchi, Masami
Poppe, Jennifer
Powell, Meredith
Qezlou, Mahdi
Saito, Shun
Schneider, Donald
Weiss, Laurel
Wisotzki, Lutz
Zeimann, Gregory
Astronomy/classification
<p>The HETDEX Source Catalog 2 (HPSC2) is part of the HETDEX Public Data Release 1 (PDR1), providing a large, uniformly processed catalog of sources detected in the completed Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX).</p> <p>HETDEX is a wide-field, integral-field spectroscopic survey designed to map the large-scale distribution of Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies (LAEs) at 1.88 < z < 3.52. The survey uses the VIRUS instrument on the Hobby–Eberly Telescope to obtain over one hundred thousand spectra per exposure, enabling an untargeted census of emission-line galaxies.</p> <p>HPSC2 includes classifications, redshifts, and spectra for over one million sources, including 426,654 Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs), 491,411 [O II] emitters, 150,608 stars, 19,457 low-redshift galaxies (LzG), and 18,303 AGN. The catalog is constructed from PSF-weighted spectral extractions and includes machine-learning classifications and quality metrics.</p> <p>It is organised into two complementary tables. The <em>Source Observation Table</em> provides one row per unique source observation, restricted to sources passing the primary catalog quality cuts (p_conf ≥ 0.5 and p_cnn ≥ 0.5). The <em>Detection Information Table</em> is the expanded catalog with one row per emission-line or continuum detection, including detections below the primary threshold. Several detections can comprise a single source observation.</p> <h3>Data Repository Contents</h3> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td>Filename</td> <td>Description</td> </tr> <tr> <td>hetdex_sc2_v1.5.fits</td> <td>Source Observation Table (FITS) - Main Catalog. Contains a sub-selection of p_conf ≥ 0.5 and p_cnn ≥ 0.5 emission-line candidates. Note continuum (det_type='cont') sources have sn=0 so be careful selecting on this column.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>hetdex_sc2_v1.5.dat</td> <td>Source Observation Table (ASCII)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>hetdex_sc2_spec_v1.5.fits</td> <td> <p>Source Observation Table + 1D Spectra (FITS);</p> <p>HDUs: INFO, SPEC, SPEC_ERR, WAVELENGTH</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>hetdex_sc2_detinfo_v1.5.fits</td> <td>Detection Information Table (FITS)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>hetdex_sc2_detinfo_v1.5.dat</td> <td>Detection Information Table (ASCII)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>readme</td> <td>Full column descriptions for both tables</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10-HETDEX-Source-Catalog.ipynb</td> <td>A Jupyter notebook demonstrating how to work with this catalog</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Bad values are -999.0 for floating-point columns and 'n/a' for string columns.</p> <p>HETDEX Data Access Description is provided at:<br><a href="https://hetdex.org/data-results/">https://hetdex.org/data-results/</a></p> <p>Full PDR1 data products (including IFU datacubes) are available at:<br><a href="https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/hetdex/HETDEX/pdr/pdr1/">https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/hetdex/HETDEX/pdr/pdr1/</a></p> <p>Datacube access and analysis tools:<br><a href="https://github.com/HETDEX/dexcube">https://github.com/HETDEX/dexcube</a></p> <h3>Preferred Citation & Acknowledgements</h3> <p>If you use this catalog, please cite:</p> <blockquote> <p>Mentuch Cooper et al. 2026, ApJS, XXX, XXX doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ae6068">10.3847/1538-4365/ae6068</a><br>Gebhardt et al. 2021, ApJ, 923, 217 doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2e03">10.3847/1538-4357/ac2e03</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Please include the following acknowledgement when using HETDEX data:</p> <blockquote> <p>HETDEX is led by the University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory and Department of Astronomy with participation from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Texas A&M University, Pennsylvania State University, Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen, The University of Oxford, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), The University of Tokyo and Missouri University of Science and Technology.</p> <p>Based on observations obtained with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), which is a joint project of the University of Texas at Austin, the Pennsylvania State University, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitaet Muenchen, and Georg-August Universitaet Goettingen. The HET is named in honor of its principal benefactors, William P. Hobby and Robert E. Eberly.</p> </blockquote>
title HETDEX Public Source Catalog 2 (HPSC2) from HETDEX Public Data Release 1
topic Astronomy/classification
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19581262