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2005A&A...430L..21W - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 430L21-24 (2005/2-1)

The Wide Field Imager Lyman-Alpha Search (WFILAS) for galaxies at redshift ∼5.7. I. A spatially compact Lyα emitting galaxy at redshift 5.721.

WESTRA E., JONES D.H., LIDMAN C.E., ATHREYA R.M., MEISENHEIMER K., WOLF C., SZEIFERT T., POMPEI E. and VANZI L.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the spectroscopic confirmation of a compact Lyα emitting galaxy at z=5.721. A FORS2 spectrum of the source shows a strong asymmetric line with a flux of 5x10–17erg/s/cm2, making it one of the brightest Lyα emitting galaxies at this redshift, and a line-of-sight velocity dispersion of 400km/s. We also have a tentative detection of a second, narrower component that is redshifted by 400km/s with respect to the main peak. A FORS2 image shows that the source is compact, with a FWHM of 0.5", which corresponds to 3.2kpc at this redshift. This source is a brighter example of J1236.8+6215 (Dawson, 2002ApJ...570...92D), another Lyα emitting galaxy at z∼5.2.

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Journal keyword(s): galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: starburst - galaxies: individual: J114334.98-014433.9

Nomenclature: NAME S11-13368 = [WHL2005] JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s N=1.

Simbad objects: 3

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