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Titolo: | Illuminating gas inflows/outflows in the MUSE deepest fields: Lyα nebulae around forming galaxies at z 3.3 | Autori: | VANZELLA, Eros Balestra, I. Gronke, M. Karman, W. Caminha, G. B. Dijkstra, M. Rosati, P. De Barros, S. Caputi, K. Grillo, C. TOZZI, Paolo MENEGHETTI, MASSIMO MERCURIO, AMATA GILLI, Roberto |
Data pubblicazione: | 2017 | Rivista: | MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | Numero: | 465 | Fascicolo: | 4 | Da pagina:: | 3803 | Abstract: | We report the identification of extended Lyα nebulae at z ≃ 3.3 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF, ≃40 kpc × 80 kpc) and behind the Hubble Frontier Field galaxy cluster MACSJ0416 (≃40 kpc), spatially associated with groups of star-forming galaxies. VLT/MUSE integral field spectroscopy reveals a complex structure with a spatially varying double-peaked Lyα emission. Overall, the spectral profiles of the two Lyα nebulae are remarkably similar, both showing a prominent blue emission, more intense and slightly broader than the red peak. From the first nebula, located in the HUDF, no X-ray emission has been detected, disfavouring the possible presence of active galactic nuclei. Spectroscopic redshifts have been derived for 11 galaxies within 2 arcsec from the nebula and spanning the redshift range 1.037 < z < 5.97. The second nebula, behind MACSJ0416, shows three aligned star-forming galaxies plausibly associated with the emitting gas. In both systems, the associated galaxies reveal possible intense rest-frame-optical nebular emissions lines [O III] λλ4959, 5007+Hβ with equivalent widths as high as 1500 Å rest frame and star formation rates ranging from a few to tens of solar masses per year. A possible scenario is that of a group of young, star-forming galaxies emitting ionizing radiation that induces Lyα fluorescence, therefore revealing the kinematics of the surrounding gas. Also Lyα powered by star formation and/or cooling radiation may resemble the double-peaked spectral properties and the morphology observed here. If the intense blue emission is associated with inflowing gas, then we may be witnessing an early phase of galaxy or a proto-cluster (or group) formation. <P /> | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/26558 | URL: | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/465/4/3803/2731969 | ISSN: | 0035-8711 | DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stw2442 | Bibcode ADS: | 2017MNRAS.465.3803V | Fulltext: | open |
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