Mapping the Most Massive Overdensities through Hydrogen (MAMMOTH). II. Discovery of the Extremely Massive Overdensity BOSS1441 at z = 2.32
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Cai, ZhengFan, Xiaohui
Bian, Fuyan
Zabludoff, Ann
Yang, Yujin
Prochaska, J. Xavier
McGreer, Ian
Zheng, Zhen-Ya
Kashikawa, Nobunari
Wang, Ran
Frye, Brenda
Green, Richard
Jiang, Linhua
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Univ Arizona, Steward ObservIssue Date
2017-04-25
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Mapping the Most Massive Overdensities through Hydrogen (MAMMOTH). II. Discovery of the Extremely Massive Overdensity BOSS1441 at z = 2.32 2017, 839 (2):131 The Astrophysical JournalJournal
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
Cosmological simulations suggest a strong correlation between high optical-depth Lya absorbers, which arise from the intergalactic medium, and 3D mass overdensities on scales of 10-30 h(-1) comoving Mpc. By examining the absorption spectra of similar to 80,000 QSO sight lines over a volume of 0.1 Gpc(3) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), we have identified an extreme overdensity, BOSS1441, which contains a rare group of strong Lya absorbers at z = 2.32 +/- 0.02. This absorber group is associated with six QSOs at the same redshift on a 30 comoving Mpc scale. Using Mayall/MOSAIC narrowband and broadband imaging, we detect Lya emitters (LAEs) down to 0.7 x L-Ly alpha ' * a and reveal a large-scale structure of LAEs in this field. Our follow-up LBT observations have spectroscopically confirmed 20 galaxies in the density peak. We show that BOSS1441 has an LAE overdensity of 10.8 +/- 2.6 on a 15 comoving Mpc scale, which could collapse to a massive cluster with M greater than or similar to 10(15) M-circle dot at z similar to 0. This overdensity is among the most massive large-scale structures at z similar to 2 discovered to date.ISSN
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US NSF grant [AST 11-07682]; NSF [AST-1412981, AST-0908280]; NASA [ADP-NNX10AD47G]; JSPS [15H03645]Additional Links
http://stacks.iop.org/0004-637X/839/i=2/a=131?key=crossref.1e8fe7e94498ee79b854943a1e5e0b7eae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3847/1538-4357/aa6a1a