The GALFA-HI Survey: Data Release 1

2011/01/11 by J. E. G. Peek, Carl Heiles, Kevin A. Douglas +10 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.GA #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0067-0049/194/2/20

Accepted to the ApJS

arxiv created 2011/01/11 · arxiv updated 2015/05/27

Abstract

We present the Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array HI (GALFA-HI) survey, and its first full data release (DR1). GALFA-HI is a high resolution (~ 4'), large area (13000 deg²), high spectral resolution (0.18 km/s), wide band (-700 < v_LSR < +700 km/s) survey of the Galactic interstellar medium in the 21-cm line hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen conducted at Arecibo Observatory. Typical noise levels are 80 mK RMS in an integrated 1 km/s channel. GALFA-HI is a dramatic step forward in high-resolution, large-area Galactic HI surveys, and we compare GALFA-HI to past, present, and future Galactic HI surveys. We describe in detail new techniques we have developed to reduce these data in the presence of fixed pattern noise, gain variation, and inconsistent beam shapes, and we show how we have largely mitigated these effects. We present our first full data release, covering 7520 square degrees of sky and representing 3046 hours of integration time, and discuss the details of these data.

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