Bright lights, big city: massive galaxies, giant Ly-alpha nebulae, and protoclusters

Willem JM van Breugel; Michiel Armijn Reuland; Willem H. de Vries; Adam Stanford; Arjun Dey; Jaron Kurk; Bram Venemans; Huub J. A. Roettgering; George Miley; Carlos De Breuck; Mike Dopita; Ralph Sutherland; Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn

doi:10.1117/12.456509

13 February 2003 Bright lights, big city: massive galaxies, giant Ly-α nebulae, and protoclusters

Willem JM van Breugel, Michiel Armijn Reuland, Willem H. de Vries, Adam Stanford, Arjun Dey, Jaron Kurk, Bram Venemans, Huub J. A. Roettgering, George Miley, Carlos De Breuck, Mike Dopita, Ralph Sutherland, Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn

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Proceedings Volume 4834, Discoveries and Research Prospects from 6- to 10-Meter-Class Telescopes II; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.456509
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

High redshift radio galaxies are great cosmological tools for pinpointing the most massive objects in the early Universe: massive forming galaxies, active super-massive black holes and proto-clusters. We report on deep narrow-band imaging and spectroscopic observations of several z > 2 radio galaxy fields to investigate the nature of giant Ly-α nebulae centered on the galaxies and to search for over-dense regions around them. We discuss the possible implications for our understanding of the formation and evolution of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters.

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Willem JM van Breugel, Michiel Armijn Reuland, Willem H. de Vries, Adam Stanford, Arjun Dey, Jaron Kurk, Bram Venemans, Huub J. A. Roettgering, George Miley, Carlos De Breuck, Mike Dopita, Ralph Sutherland, and Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn "Bright lights, big city: massive galaxies, giant Ly-α nebulae, and protoclusters", Proc. SPIE 4834, Discoveries and Research Prospects from 6- to 10-Meter-Class Telescopes II, (13 February 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.456509

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