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Title

The HIPASS catalogue II: completeness, reliability and parameter accuracy

Author(s)

Zwaan, Martin A.;  Meyer, Martin J.;  Webster, Rachel L.;  Staveley-Smith, Lister;  Drinkwater, Michael J.;  Barnes, David G.;  Bhathal, Raghir;  de Blok, W. J.;  Disney, Michael J.;  Ekers, Ron D.;  Freeman, Ken C.;  Garcia, Diego A.;  Gibson, Brad K.;  Harnett, J.;  Henning, Patricia A.;  Howlett, Matt;  Jerjen, Helmut;  Kesteven, Michael J.;  Kilborn, Virginia A.;  Knezek, Patricia M.;  Koribalski, Baerbel S.;  Mader, Stacy;  Marquarding, Malte;  Minchin, Robert F.;  O'Brien, Jess C.;  Oosterloo, Tom;  Pierce, Michael J.;  Price, R. Marcus;  Putman, Mary E.;  Ryan-Weber, E.;  Ryder, Stuart D.;  Sadler, Elaine M.;  Stevens, J.;  Stewart, Ian M.;  Stootman, Frank;  Waugh, Meryl;  Wright, Alan E.

Abstract

The HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) is a blind extragalactic HI 21-cm emission-line survey covering the whole southern sky from declination -90° to +25°. The HIPASS catalogue (HICAT), containing 4315 HI-selected galaxies from the region south of declination +2°, is presented in Meyer et al. (Paper I). This paper describes in detail the completeness and reliability of HICAT, which are calculated from the recovery rate of synthetic sources and follow-up observations, respectively. HICAT is found to be 99 per cent complete at a peak flux of 84 mJy and an integrated flux of 9.4 Jy km s-1. The overall reliability is 95 per cent, but rises to 99 per cent for sources with peak fluxes >58 mJy or integrated flux >8.2 Jy km s-1. Expressions are derived for the uncertainties on the most important HICAT parameters: peak flux, integrated flux, velocity width and recessional velocity. The errors on HICAT parameters are dominated by the noise in the HIPASS data, rather than by the parametrization procedure.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing

Source

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 350, no. 4 (Jun 2004), pp. 1210-1219

Publication year

2004

Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISSN

0035-8711

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07782.x

Peer reviewed