2025ApJ...984...57W


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2025ApJ...984...57W - Astrophys. J., 984, 57 (2025/May-1)

HST Grism Observations of a z ∼ 1.8 Cluster Candidate from the Clusters Occupied by Bent Radio AGN (COBRA) Survey.

WATSON C.B., BLANTON E.L., GOLDEN-MARX E., ASHBY M.L.N., RANDALL S.W., WING J.D. and DOUGLASS E.M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present new Hubble Space Telescope/Wide Field Camera 3 G141 grism observations for COBRA 1411+3415, originally identified as a high-redshift cluster candidate in the Clusters Occupied by Bent Radio AGN (COBRA) survey using radio, infrared, and optical data. We spectroscopically identify seven cluster members within a 0.5 Mpc radius with grism redshifts in the range 1.8006 ≤ zgrism ≤ 1.8175, consistent with COBRA 1411+3415 being a high-redshift cluster with a mean redshift of 〈zgrism〉 = 1.8106 ± 0.0006. The detection of seven galaxies within this small redshift range is significant above the background distribution of galaxies at the level of 5σ. The line-of-sight velocity dispersion of the cluster is found to be σ∥ = ${701}_{-138}^{+347}$ km s–1 with a virial mass of M200 ≈ $2.{2}_{-1.3}^{+3.3}$ × 1014M⊙. However, the mass may be lower if the cluster is still in formation. In projected phase space, we also identify two possible infalling members of COBRA 1411+3415 and two additional structures at z ∼ 1.73 and z ∼ 1.88. The similar spatial distributions and small projected separation from the main cluster suggest they could be a part of the same large-scale filament and together may form a protocluster system that could eventually merge to form a single, massive cluster. COBRA 1411+3415 is the highest-redshift cluster to be spectroscopically confirmed using a bent, double-lobed radio source as a cluster tracer.

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

Journal keyword(s): High-redshift galaxy clusters - Active galactic nuclei - Galaxy environments - Infrared spectroscopy - Galaxy spectroscopy - High-redshift galaxies

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Number of rows : 5
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 ClG J0218-0510 ClG 02 18 21.3 -05 10 27           ~ 82 0
2 JKCS 41 ClG 02 26 44.0 -04 41 36           ~ 64 0
3 SpARCS J104922+564032 ClG 10 49 22.60 +56 40 32.5           ~ 37 0
4 COBRA J141155.2+341510 C?G 14 11 55.2 +34 15 10           ~ 2 0
5 7C 1409+3429 QSO 14 11 55.2674562240 +34 15 10.105795584     18.5     ~ 37 1

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