HI Intensity Mapping with the MIGHTEE Survey: First Results of the HI Power Spectrum

Abstract

We present the first results of the HI intensity mapping power spectrum analysis with the MeerKAT International GigaHertz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) survey. We use data covering $\sim$4 square degrees in the COSMOS field using a frequency range 962.5 MHz to 1008.42 MHz, equivalent to HI emission in $0.4<z<0.48$. The data consists of 15 pointings with a total of 94.2 hours on-source. We verify the suitability of the MIGHTEE data for HI intensity mapping by testing for residual systematics across frequency, baselines and pointings. We also vary the window used for HI signal measurements and find no significant improvement using stringent Fourier mode cuts. Averaging in the power spectrum domain, i.e. using incoherent averaging, we calculate the first upper limits from MIGHTEE on the HI power spectrum at scales 0.5 Mpc${}^{-1}\lesssim k\lesssim$ 10 Mpc${}^{-1}$. We obtain the best 1$\sigma$ upper limit of 28.6 mK${}^2$Mpc${}^3$ on $k\sim$2 Mpc${}^{-1}$. Our results are consistent with the power spectrum detected with observations in the DEEP2 field with MeerKAT. The data we use here constitutes a small fraction of the MIGHTEE survey and demonstrates that combined analysis of the full MIGHTEE survey can potentially detect the HI power spectrum at $z\lesssim 0.5$ in the range 0.1 Mpc${}^{-1}\lesssim k\lesssim$ 10 Mpc${}^{-1}$ or quasi-linear scales.

18 Pages, 16 Figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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