Giant Ly-alpha nebulae in the high redshift (z>2) Universe

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2006-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611763v1

NewAstron.Rev.51:194-201,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Presented at the workshop on The Fate of the Gas in Galaxies, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands, July 2006. To appear in New Astronom

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.newar.2006.11.017

High redshift radio galaxies (z>2) are believed to be progenitors of the giant ellipticals of today. They are often associated with giant Ly-alpha nebulae (sometimes >100 kpc), which have been for more than two decades valuable sources of information about the evolutionary status of the host galaxy and its chemical enrichment and star formation histories. I present in this paper a summary of the most relevant results about the giant nebulae obtained in the last ~10 years and the implications on our understanding of the early phases of evolution of massive elliptical galaxies.

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