2025ApJ...979..247N


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2025ApJ...979..247N - Astrophys. J., 979, 247 (2025/February-1)

Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Massive Protocluster with Two Substructures at z ≃ 3.1.

NICANDRO ROSENTHAL M.J., BARGER A.J., COWIE L.L., JONES L.H., McKAY S.J. and TAYLOR A.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the results of a Keck and Northern Extended Millimeter Array spectroscopic survey of 507 galaxies, where we confirm the presence of two massive overdensities at z = 3.090-3.110 and z = 3.133-3.155 in the neighborhood of the GOODS-N, each with over a dozen spectroscopically confirmed members. We find that both of these have galaxy overdensities of near-infrared-detected galaxies of δgal,obs = 6-9 within corrected volumes of (6-7) × 103 cMpc3. We estimate the properties of the z = 0 descendants of these overdensities using a spherical collapse model and find that both should virialize by z ≃ 0.5-0.8, with total masses of Mtot ≃ (6-7) × 1014M⊙. The same spherical collapse calculations, as well as a clustering-of-clusters statistical analysis, suggest a >80% likelihood that the two overdensities will collapse into a single cluster with Mtot = (1.0-1.5) × 1015M⊙ by z ∼ 0.1-0.4. The z = 3.14 substructure contains a core of four bright dusty star-forming galaxies with ΣSFR = 2700 ± 700M⊙ yr–1 in a volume of only 280 cMpc3.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): High-redshift galaxy clusters - Galaxy evolution - Redshift surveys

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Number of rows : 4
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 ACO 2744 ClG 00 14 20.03 -30 23 17.8           ~ 1077 0
2 NAME Virgo Cluster ClG 12 30 47.8 +12 23 07           ~ 7107 0
3 NAME GOODS-N Field reg 12 36 55.0 +62 14 15           ~ 1364 1
4 NAME SSA22 Protocluster PCG 22 17 34.0 +00 17 01           ~ 175 0

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