Deep 21-cm HI Observations at z~0.1: The Precursor to the Arecibo Ultra Deep Survey

Details Deep 21-cm HI Observations at z~0.1: The Precursor to the Arecibo Ultra Deep Survey Deep 21-cm HI Observations at z~0.1: The Precursor to the Arecibo Ultra Deep Survey

2010-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/1011.0877v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

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The "ALFA Ultra Deep Survey" (AUDS) is an ongoing 21-cm spectral survey with the Arecibo 305m telescope. AUDS will be the most sensitive blind survey undertaken with Arecibo's 300 MHz Mock spectrometer. The survey searches for 21-cm HI line emission at redshifts between 0 and 0.16. The main goals of the survey are to investigate the HI content and probe the evolution of HI gas within that redshift region. In this paper, we report on a set of precursor observations with a total integration time of 53 hours. The survey detected a total of eighteen 21-cm emission lines at redshifts between 0.07 and 0.15 in a region centered around ra~0:00h, dec= 15:42deg. The rate of detection is consistent with the one expected from the local HI mass function. The derived relative HI density at the median redshift of the survey is rho_HI[z=0.125]=(1.0+/-0.3)*rho_0, where rho_0 is the HI density at zero redshift.

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