TY - JOUR
T1 - Predictions for the FAST telescope's CRAFTS extragalactic H i survey
AU - FAST Collaboration
AU - Zhang, Kai
AU - Wu, Jingwen
AU - Li, Di
AU - Tsai, Chao Wei
AU - Staveley-Smith, Lister
AU - Wang, Jing
AU - Fu, Jian
AU - McIntyre, Travis
AU - Yuan, Mao
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has started the Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey (CRAFTS). In this paper, we use the technical parameters of FAST derived from commissioning observations to simulate the completeness function for extragalactic H i survey of CRAFTS, H i galaxies from two kinds of mock catalogues are selected. One is generated by Monte Carlo simulation based on the interpolated mass-velocity width function of the ALFALFA 100 per cent (a.k.a. α.100) catalogue. The other is constructed by semi-analytical N-body simulation based on the ΛCDM model. Our results suggest that a two-pass CRAFTS extragalactic H i survey will be able to detect nearly 4.8 × 105 galaxies, from which the 'faint end' slope of the H i mass function (HIMF) can be recovered to 107, M⊙ and the 'knee mass' of the HIMF can be measured to a redshift of 0.1. Considering the radio frequency interference status and sensitivity limitation, CRAFTS will be efficient in detecting H i galaxies at redshifts below 0.1, which implies a tremendous potential in exploring the galaxy interactions in different environments and the spatial distribution of H i galaxies in the local universe.
AB - The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has started the Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey (CRAFTS). In this paper, we use the technical parameters of FAST derived from commissioning observations to simulate the completeness function for extragalactic H i survey of CRAFTS, H i galaxies from two kinds of mock catalogues are selected. One is generated by Monte Carlo simulation based on the interpolated mass-velocity width function of the ALFALFA 100 per cent (a.k.a. α.100) catalogue. The other is constructed by semi-analytical N-body simulation based on the ΛCDM model. Our results suggest that a two-pass CRAFTS extragalactic H i survey will be able to detect nearly 4.8 × 105 galaxies, from which the 'faint end' slope of the H i mass function (HIMF) can be recovered to 107, M⊙ and the 'knee mass' of the HIMF can be measured to a redshift of 0.1. Considering the radio frequency interference status and sensitivity limitation, CRAFTS will be efficient in detecting H i galaxies at redshifts below 0.1, which implies a tremendous potential in exploring the galaxy interactions in different environments and the spatial distribution of H i galaxies in the local universe.
KW - galaxies: luminosity function, mass function
KW - radio lines: galaxies
KW - surveys
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U2 - 10.1093/mnras/staa3275
DO - 10.1093/mnras/staa3275
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097498036
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 500
SP - 1741
EP - 1754
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 2
ER -