Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-13-2021

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

We use the 21-cm emission-line data from the Deep Investigation of Neutral Gas Origin-Very Large Array (DINGO-VLA) project to study the atomic hydrogen gas H I of the Universe at redshifts z < 0.1. Results are obtained using a stacking analysis, combining the H I signals from 3622 galaxies extracted from 267 VLA pointings in the G09 field of the Galaxy and Mass Assembly Survey (GAMA). Rather than using a traditional one-dimensional spectral stacking method, a three-dimensional cubelet stacking method is used to enable deconvolution and the accurate recovery of average galaxy fluxes from this high-resolution interferometric data set. By probing down to galactic scales, this experiment also overcomes confusion corrections that have been necessary to include in previous single-dish studies. After stacking and deconvolution, we obtain a 30σ H I mass measurement from the stacked spectrum, indicating an average H I mass of MHI=(1.67±0.18)×109 M⊙" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: normal; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;">MHI=(1.67±0.18)×109 M⊙MHI=(1.67±0.18)×109 M⊙⁠. The corresponding cosmic density of neutral atomic hydrogen is ΩHI=(0.38±0.04)×10−3" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: normal; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;">ΩHI=(0.38±0.04)×10−3ΩHI=(0.38±0.04)×10−3 at redshift of z = 0.051. These values are in good agreement with earlier results, implying there is no significant evolution of ΩHI" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: normal; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; word-spacing: normal; overflow-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;">ΩHIΩHI at lower redshifts.

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Copyright 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Original Publication Information

Qingxiang Chen, Martin Meyer, Attila Popping, Lister Staveley-Smith, Julia Bryant, Jacinta Delhaize, B W Holwerda, M E Cluver, J Loveday, Angel R Lopez-Sanchez, Martin Zwaan, E N Taylor, A M Hopkins, Angus Wright, Simon Driver, S Brough, Measuring cosmic density of neutral hydrogen via stacking the DINGO-VLA data, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 508, Issue 2, December 2021, Pages 2758–2770.

DOI

10.1093/mnras/stab2810

ORCID

0000-0002-4884-6756

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