The FAST Ultra-Deep Survey (FUDS) is a blind survey that aims for the direct detection of HI in galaxies at redshifts z<0.42. The survey uses the multibeam receiver on the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) to map six regions, each of size 0.72 deg2 at high sensitivity (∼50μJy) and high frequency resolution (23 kHz). The survey will enable studies of the evolution of galaxies and their HI content with an eventual sample size of ∼1000. We present the science goals, observing strategy, the effects of radio frequency interference (RFI) at the FAST site, our mitigation strategies and the methods for calibration, data reduction and imaging as applied to initial data. The observations and reductions for the first field, FUDS0, are completed, with around 128 HI galaxies detected in a preliminary analysis. Example spectra are given in this paper, including a comparison with data from the overlapping GAL2577 field of Arecibo Ultra-Deep Survey (AUDS).
@article{arxiv.2204.03152,
title = {The FAST Ultra-Deep Survey (FUDS): observational strategy, calibration and data reduction},
author = {Hongwei Xi and Bo Peng and Lister Staveley-Smith and Bi-Qing For and Bin Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.03152},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
17 pages, 19 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in PASA