Measuring cosmic density of neutral hydrogen via stacking the DINGO-VLA data

Q. Chen, M. Meyer, A. Popping, L. Staveley-Smith, J. Bryant, J. Delhaize, B.W. Holwerda, M.E. Cluver, J. Loveday, A.R. Lopez-Sanchez, M. Zwaan, E.N. Taylor, A.M. Hopkins, A. Wright, S. Driver, S. Brough

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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 MH I = (1.67 ± 0.18) × 109 Mʘ. The corresponding cosmic density of neutral atomic hydrogen is ΩH I = (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 ΩH I at lower redshifts.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2758-2770
Number of pages13
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume508
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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