2010

HETDEX pilot survey for emission-line galaxies - I. Survey design, performance, and catalog

Adams, Joshua J., Blanc, Guillermo A., Hill, Gary J. et al.

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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 (HETDEX).
We describe the observations, reductions, detections, redshift classifications, line fluxes, and counterpart information for 397 emission-line galaxies detected over 169 sq.arcmin with a 3500-5800 Ang.
bandpass under 5 Ang.

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