A Group of Red, Ly-alpha Emitting, High Redshift Galaxies

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1997-03-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9703178v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 2 figures, uses aaspp4 style file. Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/310667

We have discovered two new high redshift (z=2.38) galaxies, near the previously known z=2.38 galaxy 2139-4434 B1 (Francis et al. 1996). All three galaxies are strong Ly-alpha emitters, and have much redder continuum colors (I-K about 5) than other optically-selected high redshift galaxies. We hypothesize that these three galaxies are QSO IIs; radio-quiet counterparts of high redshift radio galaxies, containing concealed QSO nuclei. The red colors are most easily modelled by an old (> 0.5 Gyr), massive (> 10E11 solar masses) stellar population. If true, this implies that at least one galaxy cluster of mass much greater than 3E11 solar masses had collapsed before redshift five.

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