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HectoMAP: The Complete Redshift Survey (Data Release 2)

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-03-15 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

HectoMAP is a dense redshift survey of 95,403 galaxies based primarily on MMT spectroscopy with a median redshift z=0.345z = 0.345. The survey covers 54.64 square degrees in a 1.5^\circ wide strip across the northern sky centered at a declination of 43.25^\circ. We report the redshift, the spectral indicator Dn_{n}4000, and the stellar mass. The red selected survey is 81\% complete for 55,962 galaxies with (gr)>1(g-r) > 1 and r<20.5r <20.5; it is 72\% complete for 32,908 galaxies with (gr)>1(g-r) > 1, (ri)>0.5(r-i) > 0.5 and 20.5<r<21.320.5 < r < 21.3. Comparison of the survey basis SDSS photometry with the HSC-SSP photometry demonstrates that HectoMAP provides complete magnitude limited surveys based on either photometric system. We update the comparison between the HSC-SSP photometric redshifts with HectoMAP spectroscopic redshifts; the comparison demonstrates that the HSC-SSP photometric redshifts have improved between the second and third data releases. HectoMAP is a foundation for examining the quiescent galaxy population (63\% of the survey), clusters of galaxies, and the cosmic web. HectoMAP is completely covered by the HSC-SSP survey, thus enabling a variety of strong and weak lensing investigations.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2210.16499,
  title  = {HectoMAP: The Complete Redshift Survey (Data Release 2)},
  author = {Jubee Sohn and Margaret J. Geller and Ho Seong Hwang and Daniel G. Fabricant and Yousuke Utsumi and Ivana Damjanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.16499},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 22 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables. The full dataset for HectoMAP will be available when the paper is published

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