Tunable filter imaging: structure forming around a quasar at z=0.9

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1997-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9712152v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in `The Young Universe', Monte Porzio, Oct 1997, ASP

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Preliminary results are described for emission-line imaging of the field of a quasar at z=0.9 with a unique new instrument --- the TAURUS Tunable Filter (TTF). At least fourteen [O II]-emitting galaxy candidates are found within +/- 750 km/s of the quasar redshift with a significance of >3 sigma. Another eight candidates (>3 sigma) are also found with relative velocities +/- 750-1500 km/s from the quasar, indicative of a large velocity dispersion in the field. Together with the existence of a group of red galaxies in the field identified through broad-band imaging, we suggest that the TTF data are probing cluster merging which is ongoing at z=0.9.

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