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ALFALFA

(The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey)
(HI survey of many galaxies)

ALFALFA (The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey) was a survey if HI emission lines from thirty thousand galaxies and other extragalactic sources, out to a redshift of 0.06. Survey data was collected 2005-2011 using Arecibo Observatory's ALFA 1.4 GHz detector.


(survey,galaxies,HI,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALFALFA
http://egg.astro.cornell.edu/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...861...49H/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007NCimB.122.1109H/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1641
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
214mm1.4GHz5.8μeVALFALFA
RedshiftParsecs
/Distance
Lightyears
/Lookback Years
  
00pc0lynearestALFALFA
.06249Mpc814MlyfurthestALFALFA

Referenced by page:
Arecibo General Catalog (AGC)

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