Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
May 2008
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Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 244, p. 73-82
Mathematics
Logic
Galaxies: Distances And Redshifts, Galaxies: Dwarf, Galaxies: Evolution, Galaxies: Formation, Galaxies: Mass Function, Galaxies: Spiral, Cosmology: Cosmological Parameters, Cosmology: Observations, Cosmology: Large-Scale Structure Of Universe, Radio Lines: Galaxies
Scientific paper
For the last 25 years, the 21 cm line has been used productively to investigate the large scale structure of the Universe, its peculiar velocity field and the measurement of cosmic parameters. In February 2005 a blind HI survey that will cover 7074 square degrees of the high latitude sky was started at Arecibo, using the 7-beam feed L-band feed array (ALFA). Known as the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) Survey, the program is producing a census of HI-bearing objects over a cosmologically significant volume of the local Universe. With respect to previous blind HI surveys, ALFALFA offers an improvement of about one order of magnitude in sensitivity, 4 times the angular resolution, 3 times the spectral resolution, and 1.6 times the total bandwidth of HIPASS. ALFALFA can detect 7×104 D2 M of HI, where D is the source distance in Mpc. As of mid 2007, 44% of the survey observations and 15% of the source extraction are completed. We discuss the status of the survey and present a few preliminary results, in particular with reference to the proposed “dark galaxy” VirgoHI21.
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