Galaxy Clusters and Large Scale Structure at High Redshifts

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1998-01-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9801300v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Invited talk to appear in "The Young Universe", proceedings of Rome conference, ed. D'Odorico, Fontana and Giallongo. 8 pages,

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We present a detailed study of a rich galaxy cluster at z=2.38. We demonstrate that this cluster contains large overdensities of damped Ly-alpha absorption lines, of Ly-alpha emitting galaxies and of extremely red objects. The overdensity of extremely red objects in this field demonstrates that many are high z galaxies. The huge overdensities we measure for these three classes of object are much larger than the mass overdensities of typical clusters at this redshift, as predicted by CDM and related models. We suggest therefore that the distribution of damped Ly-alpha absorption line systems, of Ly-alpha emitting galaxies and of extremely red objects are all very strongly biassed, and that somehow a small overdensity of mass has increased the fraction of baryons in collapsed objects, in the volume occupied by the cluster, to close to unity (a factor of ~10 increase). We speculate that some unknown physical process, acting on the volume occupied by our cluster, caused the normally diffuse ionised inter-galactic medium to coalesce into small (< 10^8 Solar masses) blobs of neutral hydrogen, which produce the Ly-alpha absorption-lines. Star formation occurred within these blobs at z>5, enriching them with metals and producing stars, which after several mergers and ~ 0.5 Gyr of passive evolution form the extremely red objects. The Ly-alpha emitting galaxies are probably AGN, triggered perhaps by mergers of the small blobs.

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