Subaru Deep Survey. IV. Discovery of a Large-Scale Structure at Redshift \simeq 5

Details Subaru Deep Survey. IV. Discovery of a Large-Scale Structure at Redshift \simeq 5 Subaru Deep Survey. IV. Discovery of a Large-Scale Structure at Redshift \simeq 5

2003-02-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302466v1

Astrophys.J. 586 (2003) L111-L114

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 4 figures, uses emulateapj5.sty, ApJL, accepted

Scientific paper

10.1086/374880

We report the discovery of a large-scale structure of Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs) at z=4.86 based on wide-field imaging with the prime-focus camera (Suprime-Cam) on the Subaru telescope. We observed a 25' x 45' area of the Subaru Deep Field in a narrow band (NB, lambdaC=7126 A and FWHM=73 A) together with R and i'. We isolate from these data 43 LAE candidates down to NB=25.5 mag using color criteria. Follow-up spectroscopy of five candidates suggests the contamination by low-z objects to be ~ 20%. We find that the LAE candidates are clustered in an elongated region on the sky of 20 Mpc in width and 50 Mpc in length at z=4.86, which is comparable in size to present-day large-scale structures (we adopt H0=70 km/s/Mpc, Omega0=0.3, lambda0=0.7). This elongated region includes a circular region of 12 Mpc radius of higher surface overdensity (delta=2), which may be the progenitor of a cluster of galaxies. Assuming this circular region to be a sphere with a spatial overdensity of 2, we compare our observation with predictions by Cold Dark Matter models. We find that an Omega0=0.3 flat model with sigma8=0.9 predicts the number of such spheres consistent with the observed number (one sphere in our survey volume) if the bias parameter of LAEs is b \simeq 6. This value suggests that the typical mass of dark haloes hosting LAEs at z \simeq 5 is of the order of 10^12 Msolar. Such a large mass poses an interesting question about the nature of LAEs.

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