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The HST-Hyperion Survey: Grism Observations of a $z\sim2.5$ Proto-Supercluster

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2025-03-10 v1

Abstract

We present first results and catalogs from the HST-Hyperion survey. This survey has collected 50 orbits of WFC3/F160W imaging and WFC3/G141 grism spectroscopy in the most overdense regions of the Hyperion proto-supercluster at z2.45z\sim2.45, which are analyzed in conjunction with the adjacent 56 orbits of WFC3/F140W imaging and WFC3/G141 grism spectroscopy from the 3D-HST survey. Sources were identified and spectra extracted using GRIZLI, which subsequently fit the combined grism data with object-matched photometric data from the COSMOS2020 catalog to obtain a redshift and best-fit spectral model. Each source was then visually inspected by multiple team members and quality flags were assigned. A total of 12814 objects with mHST25.0m_{HST} \leq 25.0 were inspected, of which 5629 (44%) have reliable redshifts from the grism data, which are sensitive to emission lines at a level of 8.8×1018\sim8.8 \times10^{-18} erg s1^{-1} cm2^{-2} (1σ1\sigma). Comparison to high-quality ground-based spectroscopic redshifts yields a scatter of σNMAD=0.0016\sigma_{\rm NMAD} = 0.0016. The resulting catalogs contain 125 confirmed members of the Hyperion structure within 2.40<z<2.532.40<z<2.53, with an additional 71 confirmed galaxies in projection within 2.35<z<2.652.35<z<2.65. The redshift, stellar population, and line flux catalogs, as well as all grism spectra, are publicly available.

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@article{arxiv.2503.04884,
  title  = {The HST-Hyperion Survey: Grism Observations of a $z\sim2.5$ Proto-Supercluster},
  author = {Ben Forrest and Lu Shen and Brian C. Lemaux and Ekta Shah and Olga Cucciati and Roy R. Gal and Finn Giddings and Emmet Golden-Marx and Weida Hu and Kaila Ronayne and Derek Sikorski and Priti Staab and Ricardo O. Amorín and Sandro Bardelli and Bianca Garilli and Nimish Hathi and Denise Hung and Lori Lubin and Debora Pelliccia and Russell E. Ryan and Gianni Zamorani and Elena Zucca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.04884},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Resubmitted to ApJS after responding to referee comments