A massive protocluster of galaxies at a redshift of z ≈ 5.3

Peter L. Capak (), Dominik Riechers, Nick Z. Scoville, Chris Carilli, Pierre Cox, Roberto Neri, Brant Robertson, Mara Salvato, Eva Schinnerer, Lin Yan, Grant W. Wilson, Min Yun, Francesca Civano, Martin Elvis, Alexander Karim, Bahram Mobasher and Johannes G. Staguhn
Additional contact information
Peter L. Capak: Spitzer Science Centre, 314-6 California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Dominik Riechers: 249-17 California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Nick Z. Scoville: 249-17 California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Chris Carilli: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, PO Box O
Pierre Cox: Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique, 300 rue de la Piscine, F-38406 St-Martin-d’Hères, France
Roberto Neri: Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique, 300 rue de la Piscine, F-38406 St-Martin-d’Hères, France
Brant Robertson: 249-17 California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Mara Salvato: Max-Planck-Institute für Plasma Physics, Boltzmann Strasse 2, Garching 85748, Germany
Eva Schinnerer: Max-Planck-Institute für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, Heidelberg 69117, Germany
Lin Yan: Spitzer Science Centre, 314-6 California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Grant W. Wilson: University of Massachusetts, Lederle Graduate Research Tower B, 619E, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9305, USA
Min Yun: University of Massachusetts, Lederle Graduate Research Tower B, 619E, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9305, USA
Francesca Civano: Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, MS, 67, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Martin Elvis: Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, MS, 67, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Alexander Karim: Max-Planck-Institute für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, Heidelberg 69117, Germany
Bahram Mobasher: University of California
Johannes G. Staguhn: Johns Hopkins University, Laboratory for Observational Cosmology, Code 665, Building 34, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Nature, 2011, vol. 470, issue 7333, 233-235

Abstract: An early look at a galactic cluster A 'protocluster' of massive galaxies at a redshift z = 5.3, dating to only a billion years after the Big Bang, has been discovered in data from the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS), a project combining the power of the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes on 2 square degrees of sky in the constellation Sextans. The protocluster occupies an overdense region more than 13 megaparsecs (40 million light years) across, rich in molecular gas and young stars. Its properties match the predictions of galaxy formation simulations, suggesting that the protocluster will evolve into a massive galaxy cluster typical of those seen at lower redshifts.

Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09681 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:470:y:2011:i:7333:d:10.1038_nature09681

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature09681

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().