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Searching for lyman alpha emission from a possible zel'dovich pancake
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Cox, Caroline Schulman, Eric Bregman, Joel N. |
| Copyright Year | 1993 |
| Description | The detection of 2 x 10(exp 14) solar mass of neutral hydrogen at a redshift of 3.397 has been reported. Top-down theories of structure formation predict such a mass of hydrogen collapsing to form a protocluster of galaxies. We sought to observe this object in Lyman-alpha, which could be produced through ionization by the metagalactic ionizing radiation field or through internal ionization processes. On 29 Apr. 1992, the region of the reported HI emission for 1800 seconds with the 1.3 meter McGraw-Hill reflector at Michigan-Dartmouth-M.I.T. Observatory was observed. Because the H1 emission reported has a transverse scale of 300 sec, a 1/3.06 reducing camera and a Thomson CCD were used to obtain a field of view of about 600 sec by 840 sec. A filter 88 A wide, centered at 5354 A was used; Lyman-alpha emission at z = 3.4 is redshifted to 5347 A. In order to avoid saturating the CCD with a bright star in the field, nine 200 second exposures were taken. The combination of these images shows no obvious extended Lyman-alpha emission at a level of about 28 magnitudes per square arcsecond. The field observed also shows a distant cluster of galaxies. In order to determine if the cluster could in any way be associated with the cloud of neutral hydrogen at z = 3.4, we sought to estimate its redshift from the size and magnitude of the galaxies and of the cluster as a whole. Omega = 1 and H(sub O) = 50 km s(sup -1) Mpc(sup -1) were adopted; our redshift estimates range from z = 0.2 to z = 0.6. The cluster is clearly not associated with the HI cloud at z = 3.4. |
| File Size | 130427 |
| Page Count | 2 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19930017566 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t82k1bx60 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1993-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astrophysics Galactic Clusters Neutral Gases Red Shift Ionizing Radiation Lyman Alpha Radiation Stellar Mass Hydrogen Stellar Magnitude Star Distribution Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
