HI4PI: A full-sky HI survey based on EBHIS and GASS
Abstract
Measurement of the Galactic neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) column density, NHI, and brightness temperatures, Tb, is of high scientific value for a broad range of astrophysical disciplines. In the past two decades, one of the most-used legacy HI datasets has been the Leiden/Argentine/Bonn Survey (LAB). We release the HI 4 survey (HI4PI), an all-sky database of Galactic HI, which supersedes the LAB survey. The HI4PI survey is based on data from the recently completed first coverage of the Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS) and from the third revision of the Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS). EBHIS and GASS share similar angular resolution and match well in sensitivity. Combined, they are ideally suited to be a successor to LAB. The new HI4PI survey outperforms the LAB in angular resolution (16.2', FWHM) and sensitivity (RMS: 43 mK). Moreover, it has full spatial sampling and thus overcomes a major drawback of LAB, which severely undersamples the sky. We publish all-sky column density maps of the neutral atomic hydrogen in the Milky Way, along with full spectroscopic data, in several map projections including HEALPix.
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@article{arxiv.1610.06175,
title = {HI4PI: A full-sky HI survey based on EBHIS and GASS},
author = {HI4PI Collaboration and N. Ben Bekhti and L. Flöer and R. Keller and J. Kerp and D. Lenz and B. Winkel and J. Bailin and M. R. Calabretta and L. Dedes and H. A. Ford and B. K. Gibson and U. Haud and S. Janowiecki and P. M. W. Kalberla and F. J. Lockman and N. M. McClure-Griffiths and T. Murphy and H. Nakanishi and D. J. Pisano and L. Staveley-Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.06175},
year = {2016}
}
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14 pages, 8 figures, A&A in press, corresponding authors: B. Winkel and P. M. W. Kalberla