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Radio-loud high-redshift protogalaxy candidates in Bootes
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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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
- Subjects :
- Physics
Radio galaxy
Protogalaxy
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Near-infrared spectroscopy
Astrophysics (astro-ph)
Vega
FOS: Physical sciences
Astronomy and Astrophysics
BOOTES
Astrophysics
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Redshift
Space and Planetary Science
Spectral energy distribution
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Photometric redshift
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5629ba158d80bc238f410acbd2480d25