MUSE-ALMA Haloes XIV: The ALMA Large Programme Data Release

Abstract

The interactions between gas and galaxies are of paramount importance to our understanding of structure formation. A fundamental element of such baryon cycle studies is a complete census of the condensed matter (stars and cold gas) in both galaxies and their immediate surroundings, the so-called circumgalactic medium. Of particular importance are the processes of converting molecular gas into stars and deciphering whether this <100K gas is tracing gas flows. The MUSE-ALMA Haloes survey has assembled probes of the neutral atomic gas HI, ionised gas and stellar component for a sample of 79 $z\sim 0.5$ galaxies. This is achieved by combining absorption line spectroscopy of background quasars with projected impact parameter as low as 5 kpc and up to 250 kpc to probe the low density circumgalactic gas with emission line tracers of both ionised gas and stars. This paper presents the Large Programme observational set-up and releases the data characterising the molecular phase of some of the MUSE-ALMA Haloes targets so as to reach a complete census of their condensed baryons. ALMA's unique millimetre coverage and high sensitivity is ideal to characterise the CO emission of these $z\sim 0.5$ HI-selected galaxies. By measuring the molecular mass, kinematics, gas flows and gas fractions, this project then: i) quantifies the role of molecular gas in HI-rich galaxies, ii) characterises the molecular phase of gas flows from morpho-kinematics analyses, and iii) establishes a census of the condensed baryons in the interstellar and circumgalactic media. Ultimately, these results will provide unique insights into the baryon cycle - a crucial component of galaxy formation.

Accepted for publication in A&A in February 2026. We acknowledge that works relevant to these results have been published since then. Part of the MUSE-ALMA survey series, see simultaneously posted papers by Barfety et al. and O'Beirne et al. The reduced data are available here: https://almascience.eso.org/alma-data/lp/alma-muse/

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