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The Arecibo L-band Feed Array Zone of Avoidance (ALFAZOA) Shallow Survey is a blind HI survey of the extragalactic sky behind the northern Milky Way conducted with the ALFA receiver on the 305m Arecibo Radio Telescope. ALFAZOA Shallow…

The Arecibo Ultra Deep Survey (AUDS) is a blind HI survey aimed at detecting galaxies beyond the local Universe in the 21-cm emission line of neutral hydrogen (HI). The Arecibo $L$-band Feed Array (ALFA) was used to image an area of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Hongwei Xi , Lister Staveley-Smith , Bi-Qing For , Wolfram Freudling , Martin Zwaan , Laura Hoppmann , Fu-Heng Liang , Bo Peng

We introduce the GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey (GASS), an on-going large program that is gathering high quality HI-line spectra using the Arecibo radio telescope for an unbiased sample of ~1000 galaxies with stellar masses greater than 10^10…

In this study, we present an update of a compilation of line width measurements of neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) galaxy spectra at 21 cm wavelength. Our All Digital HI (ADHI) catalog consists of the previous release augmented with our new HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 A. Dupuy , H. M. Courtois , D. Guinet , R. B. Tully , E. Kourkchi

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Hongwei Xi , Bo Peng , Lister Staveley-Smith , Bi-Qing For , Bin Liu

Imaging of galaxies to study the interstellar medium on scales of a few pc is difficult. However, for the Milky Way galaxy two major Galactic all sky HI 21-cm line surveys will become available soon with unprecedented quality. We present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-02 Peter M. W. Kalberla , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , J. Kerp

We analyze the distribution of galaxy HI masses detected in a large, deep HI survey conducted at the Arecibo observatory, and we find possible evidence of a faint-end steepening of the mass function similar to what has been found optically.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen E. Schneider , John G. Spitzak , Jessica L. Rosenberg

We present the second data release from the GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey (GASS), an ongoing large Arecibo program to measure the HI properties for an unbiased sample of ~1000 galaxies with stellar masses greater than 10^10 Msun and redshifts…

Environments play an important role in galaxy formation and evolution, particularly in regulating the content of neutral gas. However, current HI surveys have limitations in their depth, which prevents them from adequately studying low HI…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-13 Hui-Jie Hu , Qi Guo , Pablo Renard , Hang Yang , Zheng Zheng , Yingjie Jing , Hao Chen , Hui Li

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has the largest aperture and a 19-beam L-band receiver, making it powerful for investigating the neutral hydrogen atomic gas (HI) in the universe. We present HiFAST…

In this paper we present the results of the statistical analysis of high-latitude HI turbulence in the Milky Way. We have observed HI in the 21 cm line, obtained with the Arecibo L-Band Feed Array (ALFA) receiver at the Arecibo radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 A. Chepurnov , A. Lazarian , S. Stanimirovic , C. Heiles , J. E. G. Peek

In preparation for the full Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA extragalactic HI survey, precursor observations were carried out in Aug--Sep 2004 with the 7-beam Arecibo L-band feed array (ALFA) receiver system and the WAPP spectral processors. While…

GALFACTS is a large-area spectro-polarimetric survey on the Arecibo Radio telescope. It uses the seven-beam focal plane feed array receiver system (ALFA) to carry out an imaging survey project of the 12,700 square degrees of sky visible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-22 Samuel J. George , Jeroen M. Stil , Mircea Andrecut , A. Russ Taylor

We present the catalog of ~31500 extragalactic HI line sources detected by the completed ALFALFA survey out to z < 0.06 including both high signal-to-noise ratio (> 6.5) detections and ones of lower quality which coincide in both position…

The Arecibo L-Band Feed Array Zone of Avoidance (ALFA ZOA) Deep Survey is the deepest and most sensitive blind Hi survey undertaken in the ZOA. ALFA ZOA Deep will cover about 300 square degrees of sky behind the Galactic plane in both the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Travis P. McIntyre , Patricia A. Henning , Robert F. Minchin , Emmanuel Momjian , Zhon Butcher

This survey, once completed, will provide a 3D sample of 200 nearby spiral and irregular galaxies in the Halpha line, using a Fabry-Perot system. The data cubes obtained for each galaxy allow derivation of lines maps, velocity fields and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Amram , Olivia Garrido

The Arecibo Ultra Deep Survey (AUDS) combines the unique sensitivity of the telescope with the wide field of the Arecibo L-band Feed Array (ALFA) to directly detect 21cm HI emission from galaxies at distances beyond the local Universe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 L. Hoppmann , L. Staveley-Smith , W. Freudling , M. A. Zwaan , R. F. Minchin , M. R. Calabretta

The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (AGES) is one of several HI surveys utilising the new Arecibo L-band Feed Array (ALFA) fitted to the 305m radio telescope at Arecibo. The survey is specifically designed to investigate various galactic…

We present the results of the HIGHz Arecibo survey, which measured the HI content of 39 galaxies at redshift $z>0.16$ selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. These are all actively star-forming, disk-dominated systems in relatively…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Barbara Catinella , Luca Cortese

We present Arecibo L-band Feed Array 21-cm observations of a sub-complex of HVCs at the tip of the Anti-Center Complex. These observations show morphological details that point to interaction with the ambient halo medium and differential…