Extremely Red Objects in the Field of QSO 1213-0017: A Galaxy Concentration at z=1.31

Details Extremely Red Objects in the Field of QSO 1213-0017: A Galaxy Concentration at z=1.31 Extremely Red Objects in the Field of QSO 1213-0017: A Galaxy Concentration at z=1.31

2000-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0002443v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

37 pages including 11 Postscript figures. To appear in the June 2000 issue of the Astronomical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/301399

We have discovered a concentration of extremely red objects (EROs; R-K>6) in the field of the z=2.69 quasar QSO 1213-0017 (UM 485), which is significantly overabundant compared to the field ERO surface density. The optical/near-IR colors of the EROs and numerous other red galaxies in this field are consistent with elliptical galaxies at z=1-2. HST optical images for a subset of galaxies show regular morphologies, most of them being disky or diffuse and without any obvious evidence for interactions. Ground-based IR images show similar morphologies, indicating any dust reddening in these objects is spatially uniform. Optical spectroscopy with the W. M. Keck Telescope has found that four of the red galaxies lie at =1.31, and a fifth lies in the foreground at z=1.20. Of the =1.31 galaxies, one is a reddened AGN while the remaining three have rest-frame UV absorption-line spectra characteristic of old (few Gyr) stellar populations, similar to the old red galaxy LBDS 53W091 at z=1.55. Including the MgII absorber seen in the QSO spectrum, we find five galaxies at =1.31 spread over 1.5 h_50^{-1} Mpc on the sky. These results suggest we have discovered a coherent structure of old galaxies at high-redshift, possibly associated with a massive galaxy cluster.

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