Subaru deep near-infrared imaging of the field of a possible proto-cluster near the radio galaxy 53W002 at z = 2.4

Toru Yamada, Kentaro Motohara, Fumihide Iwamuro, Toshinori Maihara, Masaru Kajisawa, Ichi Tanaka, Tadayuki Kodama, Hiroshi Terada, Miwa Goto, Hirohisa Tanabe, Tomoyuki Taguchi, Ryuji Hata, Tadafumi Takata, Kazuhiro Sekiguchi, Masanori Iye, Toshiyuki Sasaki, Tomonori Usuda, George Kosugi, Chris Simpson

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Abstract

We present the results of deep K′ and J-band imaging of the field of a proto-cluster region near the radio galaxy 53W002 at z = 2.390 with the Subaru Telescope. The data were analyzed together with deep optical and near-infrared (NIR) images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope to investigate the properties of ten optically compact emission-line galaxies and candidates. Excluding the three objects which may contain active galactic nuclei, many are faint or undetected at K′ (λres ≈ 6000Å), and are therefore revealed to be intrinsically small starbursting objects. On the other hand, we detect few objects with colors and magnitudes expected for quiescent massive galaxies at z = 2.4 in the field.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1119-1131
Number of pages13
JournalPublication of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Volume53
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2001

Keywords

  • Galaxies: Active
  • Galaxies: Elliptical and lenticular, cD
  • Galaxies: Evolution

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