Bibcode
Kuiper, E.; Hatch, N. A.; Venemans, B. P.; Miley, G. K.; Röttgering, H. J. A.; Kurk, J. D.; Overzier, R. A.; Pentericci, L.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Cepa, J.
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 417, Issue 2, pp. 1088-1097.
Fecha de publicación:
10
2011
Número de citas
30
Número de citas referidas
29
Descripción
We present the first results obtained using a tunable narrow-band filter
in the search for high-z protoclusters. Using the recently commissioned
red tunable filter on the Gran Telescopio Canarias, we have searched for
Lyα emitters in a 75 arcmin2 field centred on the z=
4.413 radio galaxy 6C0140+326. With three different wavelength tunings,
we find a total of 27 unique candidate Lyα emitters. The
availability of three different wavelength tunings allows us to make
estimates of the redshifts for each of the objects. It also allows us to
separate a possible protocluster from a structure in the immediate
foreground. This division shows that the foreground region contains
significantly fewer Lyα emitters. Also, the spatial distribution
of the objects in the protocluster field deviates from a random
distribution at the 2.5σ level. The observed redshift distribution
of the emitters is different from the expected distribution of a blank
field at the ˜3σ level, with the Lyα emitters
concentrated near the radio galaxy at z > 4.38. The 6C0140+326 field
is denser by a factor of 9 ± 5 than a blank field, and the number
density of Lyα emitters close to the radio galaxy is similar to
that of the z˜ 4.1 protocluster around TN J1338-1942. We thus
conclude that there is an overdensity of Lyα emitters around the
radio galaxy 6C0140+326. This is one of few known overdensities at such
a high redshift.
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