Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Jan 2012
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012aas...21942811t&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #428.11
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
Theoretical and numerical modeling of dark-matter halo assembly predicts that the most luminous galaxies at high redshift are surrounded by overdensities of fainter companions. We test this prediction with HST observations acquired by our Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies (BoRG) survey, finding a correlation between counts of bright and faint candidate galaxies at z 8 which is significant at >99.8% confidence. Furthermore, the best z 8 bright candidate of the survey is associated to the most significant overdensity of faint galaxies (4 additional sources within a region of diameter 70arcsec, where only 0.2 where expected), indicating that we identified a candidate protocluster at confidence >99.99%. We modeled the overdensity by means of cosmological simulations and estimate that the principal dark matter halo has mass Mh (4-7)x1011Msun ( 5sigma density peak) and is surrounded by several Mh 1011Msun halos which could host the fainter dropouts. In this scenario, we predict that all halos will eventually merge into a Mh>2x1014Msun galaxy cluster by z=0. Follow-up observations with ground and space based telescopes are required to secure the z 8 nature of the overdensity, discover new members, and measure their precise redshift.
Collective BoRG
Trenti Michele
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