HectoMAP: The Complete Redshift Survey (Data Release 2)
Abstract
HectoMAP is a dense redshift survey of 95,403 galaxies based primarily on MMT spectroscopy with a median redshift z = 0.345. The survey covers 54.64 deg2 in a 1.°5 wide strip across the northern sky centered at a decl. of 43.°25. We report the redshift, the spectral indicator D n 4000, and the stellar mass. The red-selected survey is 81% complete for 55,962 galaxies with (g - r) > 1 and r < 20.5; it is 72% complete for 32,908 galaxies with (g - r) > 1, (r - i) > 0.5 and 20.5 < r < 21.3. Comparison of the survey basis SDSS photometry with the HSC-SSP photometry demonstrates that HectoMAP provides complete magnitude-limited surveys based on either photometric system. We update the comparison between the HSC-SSP photometric redshifts with HectoMAP spectroscopic redshifts; the comparison demonstrates that the HSC-SSP photometric redshifts have improved between the second and third data releases. HectoMAP is a foundation for examining the quiescent galaxy population (63% of the survey), clusters of galaxies, and the cosmic web. HectoMAP is completely covered by the HSC-SSP survey, thus enabling a variety of strong- and weak-lensing investigations.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- March 2023
- DOI:
- 10.3847/1538-4357/acb925
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2210.16499
- Bibcode:
- 2023ApJ...945...94S
- Keywords:
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- Redshift surveys;
- Large-scale structure of the universe;
- Galaxy clusters;
- 1378;
- 902;
- 584;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 22 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables. The full dataset for HectoMAP will be available when the paper is published