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ALFALFA has produced over 7400 dual polarization data cubes, an ASCII catalog of the > over 30,000 extragalactic detections, and HI line spectra.

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From the SRDP perspective, the set of all ALFALFA data products is a collection.

Publications

The main catalog paper by Haynes et al. (2018).

The long and continually growing list of ALFALFA publications.

ALFALFA Data Products

Spectral 1. Spectral Data Cubes, Spectral Weights, Continuum Maps, Continuum Weights

Data cube option 1 (Everything in one file - a primary header and three image headers)

Data cube option 2 (Spectral cube and three ancillary products - spectral weights, continuum maps, and continuum weights)

Dimensions of the data

Number of files

Volume of data

2. Extragalactic Catalog

The catalog description, an ASCII text file, or an CSV text file.

3. HI Spectra

Each detection has a single FITS file with a binary table extension, containing the X-Y points of the spectrum and associated metadata.

Stakeholders

Brian Kent, NRAO, Project Sponsor and Technical Expert

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The ALFALFA data represent a low-risk, completed, and mature dataset that will be useful to the astronomical community.  The data are not going to be remade or regridded, and will be ingested into the archive only one time.