Emission-line galaxies from HETDEX pilot survey

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We present a catalog of emission-line galaxies selected solely by their emission-line fluxes using a wide-field integral field spectrograph. This work is partially motivated as a pilot survey for the upcoming Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment. We describe the observations, reductions, detections, redshift classifications, line fluxes, and counterpart information for 397 emission-line galaxies detected over 169arcmin^2^ with a 3500-5800{AA} bandpass under 5{AA} full-width-half-maximum (FWHM) spectral resolution. The survey's best sensitivity for unresolved objects under photometric conditions is between 4 and 20x10^-17^erg/s/cm^2^ depending on the wavelength, and Ly{alpha} luminosities between 3x10^42^ and 6x10^42^erg/s are detectable. This survey method complements narrowband and color-selection techniques in the search of high-redshift galaxies with its different selection properties and large volume probed. The four survey fields within the COSMOS, GOODS-N, MUNICS, and XMM-LSS areas are rich with existing, complementary data. We find 105 galaxies via their high-redshift Ly{alpha} emission at 1.9<z<3.8, and the majority of the remainder objects are low-redshift [OII]3727 emitters at z44arcmin^2^ which appear to be extended Ly{alpha} nebulae. We also find three high-z objects with rest-frame Ly{alpha} EW above the level believed to be achievable with normal star formation, EW0>240{AA}.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/192/5/table2 (Ancillary broadband imaging properties)

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/192/5/hetdex (HETDEX pilot survey emission line catalog and classification (tables 3 and 4 of the paper))

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.21920005
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Creator Adams J.J.; Blanc G.A.; Hill G.J.; Gebhardt K.; Drory N.; Hao L.,Bender R.; Byun J.; Ciardullo R.; Cornell M.E.; Finkelstein S.L.; Fry A.,Gawiser E.; Gronwall C.; Hopp U.; Jeong D.; Kelz A.; Kelzenberg R.,Komatsu E.; MacQueen P.J.; Murphy J.; Odoms P.S.; Roth M.; Schneider D.P.,Tufts J.R.; Wilkinson C.P.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2011
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics