The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey: The ALFALFA Extragalactic H i Source Catalog

By M. Haynes, R. Giovanelli, B. Kent, Elizabeth A. K. Adams, T. Balonek, D. Craig, D. Fertig, R. Finn, C. Giovanardi, G. Hallenbeck and 15 more. Astrophysical Journal, 2018

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We present the catalog of ∼31,500 extragalactic H i line sources detected by the completed Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey out to z < 0.06, including both high signal-to-noise ratio (>6.5) detections and ones of lower quality that coincide in both position and recessional velocity with galaxies of known redshift. We review the observing technique, data reduction pipeline, and catalog construction process, focusing on details of particular relevance to understanding the catalog’s compiled parameters. We further describe and make available the digital H i line spectra associated with the cataloged sources. In addition to the extragalactic H i line detections, we report nine confirmed OH megamasers (OHMs) and 10 OHM candidates at 0.16 < z < 0.22 whose OH line signals are redshifted into the ALFALFA frequency band. Because of complexities in data collection and processing associated with the use of a feed-horn array on a complex single-dish antenna in the terrestrial radio frequency interference environment, we also present a list of suggestions and caveats for consideration by users of the ALFALFA extragalactic catalog for future scientific investigations.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA-derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools, and Stellar Library (2018, methodology): “The depth of this observing is aimed to be similar to the Arecibo Legacy Fast Arecibo L-band Feed Array (ALFALFA) blind HI survey (Haynes et al. 2018) which covers some of the MaNGA footprint (see Figure 2) with a goal of enabling studies to use HI data from both surveys.”