Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-06-21
Nature 382 (1996) 231-233
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 1 landscape table, and 3 PostScript figures. Uses aaspp4.sty, flushrt.sty, aj_pt4.sty, overcite.sty (style macros ava
Scientific paper
10.1038/382231a0
Studies of the formation and early history of galaxies have been hampered by the difficulties inherent in detecting faint galaxy populations at high redshift. As a consequence, observations at the highest redshifts (3.5 < z < 5) have been restricted to objects that are intrinsically bright. These include quasars, radio galaxies, and some Ly alpha-emitting objects that are very close to (within ~10 kpc) -- and appear to be physically associated with -- quasars. But the extremely energetic processes which make these objects easy to detect also make them unrepresentative of normal (field) galaxies. Here we report the discovery using Keck spectroscopic observations of two Ly alpha-emitting galaxies at redshift z = 4.55, which are sufficiently far from the nearest quasar (~700 kpc) that radiation from the quasar is unlikely to provide the excitation source of the Ly alpha emission. Instead, these galaxies appear to be undergoing their first burst of star formation, at a time when the Universe was less than one billion years old.
Hu Esther M.
McMahon Richard G.
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