The Herschel SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer Spectral Feature Finder − II. Estimating radial velocity of SPIRE spectral observation sources. Issue 4 (13th June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Scott, Jeremy P; Hładczuk, Natalia; Spencer, Locke D; Valtchanov, Ivan; Benson, Chris; Hopwood, Rosalind
• Is Part Of: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Volume 496:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 4894
• Page End: 4905
• Publication Date: 2020-06-13
• Subjects: line: identification -- methods: data analysis -- techniques: radial velocities -- catalogues -- submillimetre: general; Astronomy -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 520.5
• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1614
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0035-8711

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The Herschel SPIRE FTS Spectral Feature Finder (FF) detects significant spectral features within SPIRE spectra and employs two routines, and external references, to estimate source radial velocity. The first routine is based on the identification of rotational 12 CO emission, the second cross-correlates detected features with a line template containing most of the characteristic lines in typical far infrared observations. In this paper, we outline and validate these routines, summarize the results as they pertain to the FF, and comment on how external references were incorporated.