BRIGHT Lights, BIG City: Massive Galaxies, Giant Ly-A Nebulae, and Proto-Clusters

Conference · Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2002

OSTI ID:15002113

van Breugel, W; Reuland, M; de Vries, W; Stanford, A; Dey, A; Kurk, J; Venemans, B; Rottgering, H; Miley, G; De Breuck, C; Dopita, M; Sutherland, R; Bland-Hawthorn, J

High redshift radio galaxies are great cosmological tools for pinpointing the most massive objects in the early Universe: massive forming galaxies, active super-massive black holes and proto-clusters. They report on deep narrow-band imaging and spectroscopic observations of several z > 2 radio galaxy fields to investigate the nature of giant Ly-{alpha} nebulae centered on the galaxies and to search for over-dense regions around them. They discuss the possible implications for our understanding of the formation and evolution of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 15002113
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-149640; TRN: US200408%%93
• Resource Relation: Conference: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers Conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Waikoloa, HI (US), 08/22/2002--08/28/2002; Other Information: PBD: 1 Aug 2002
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
BLACK HOLES
ENGINEERS
GALAXIES
GALAXY CLUSTERS
NEBULAE
RADIO GALAXIES
TELESCOPES
UNIVERSE