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Title:
The ALFALFA HI Absorption Pilot Project
Authors:
Macdonald, Erin; Darling, J.; ALFALFA Team
Affiliation:
AA(Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy -- University of Colorado at Boulder), AB(University of Colorado), AC()
Publication:
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #482.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.451
Publication Date:
01/2009
Origin:
AAS
Bibliographic Code:
2009AAS...21348209M

Abstract

We present the results of a pilot project to search for HI 21 cm absorption in the Arecibo Legacy Fast Arecibo L-Band Feed Array (ALFALFA) Survey. This project is the first to conduct a "blind" wide-area search for HI absorption in the local universe. The search covered 517.0 deg2 spanning 10.9h < α < 14.95h and +7.7o < δ < +16.3o. The ALFALFA survey covers -650 km s-1 < cz < 17,500 km s-1, for a Δz = 0.054 along each line of sight (11% of the cz span is lost to radio frequency interference and Galactic HI emission). There are 243 sources toward which all damped Lyα systems (N(HI) > 2x1020 cm-2) could be detected, and 3282 sources toward which N(HI) > 2x1021 cm-2 columns could be detected (assuming 100 K spin temperature, 30 km s-1 line width, and unity filling factor). We performed Green Bank Telescope follow-up observations of 13 possible absorption lines and the 250 strong sources (> 220 mJy) in our survey region. One previously known intrinsic HI absorption line in UGC 6081 was re-detected, but no additional lines were identified in the survey region. Nevertheless, this pilot project demonstrates the value and feasibility of large-area absorption line searches commensal with emission line surveys. An absorption line search of the entire 7000 deg2 ALFALFA Survey is a worthwhile undertaking, not only to identify HI absorption systems in the local universe, but to measure the fraction of HI gas not accounted for by emission line surveys.

ALFALFA is a legacy survey at the Arecibo Observatory supported by NAIC and NSF.

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