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Radio-loud high-redshift protogalaxy candidates in Bootes

Authors :
Huub Röttgering
Michael J. I. Brown
S. A. Stanford
Peter R. Eisenhardt
Daniel Stern
Steven P. Willner
Wil van Breugel
Steve Croft
Wim de Vries
Buell T. Jannuzi
Arjun Dey
Publication Year :
2008

Abstract

We used the Near Infrared Camera on Keck I to obtain Ks-band images of four candidate high-redshift radio galaxies selected using optical and radio data in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey in Bootes. Our targets have 1.4 GHz radio flux densities greater than 1 mJy, but are undetected in the optical to fainter than 24 Vega mag. Spectral energy distribution fitting suggests that three of these objects are at z > 3, with radio luminosities near the FR-I / FR-II break. The other has photometric redshift 1.2, but may in fact be at higher redshift. Two of the four objects exhibit diffuse morphologies in Ks -band, suggesting that they are still in the process of forming.<br />25 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in AJ; minor changes to match published version

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....5629ba158d80bc238f410acbd2480d25