Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-12-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in AJ. 25 pages, 24 figs (large files in jpg or gif format), uses emulateapj.sty
Scientific paper
10.1086/319948
Using a combination of multicolour broad- and narrow-band imaging techniques and follow-up spectroscopy, we have detected an overdensity of galaxies in the field of quasar MRC B0450-221, whose properties are consistent with a cluster at the quasar redshift z=0.9. An excess of red galaxies (V-I>2.2, I-K'>3.8) is evident within 1' of the quasar, with the colours expected for galaxies at z=0.9 that have evolved passively for 3 Gyr or more. A number of line-emitting galaxies (nine candidates with equivalent widths EW>70A) are also detected in the field using the TAURUS Tunable Filter (TTF). Three have been confirmed spectroscopically to indeed lie at z=0.9. The TTF candidates with the strongest [O II] line emission cluster in a group which lies 200-700 kpc away from the quasar and the red galaxy excess, and therefore most likely on the outskirts of the cluster. These observations are the first in a series probing quasar environments at z~1 with TTF.
Athreya Ramana M.
Baker Joanne C.
Barr Jordi
Bland-Hawthorn Joss
Bremer Malcolm N.
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