2014ApJ...795L..20Y -
Astrophys. J., 795, L20 (2014/November-1)
Keck/MOSFIRE spectroscopic confirmation of a Virgo-like cluster ancestor at z = 2.095.
YUAN T., NANAYAKKARA T., KACPRZAK G.G., TRAN K.-V.H., GLAZEBROOK K., KEWLEY L.J., SPITLER L.R., POOLE G.B., LABBE I., STRAATMAN C.M.S. and TOMCZAK A.R.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present spectroscopic confirmation of a galaxy cluster at z = 2.095 in the COSMOS field. This galaxy cluster was first reported in the ZFOURGE survey as harboring evolved massive galaxies using photometric redshifts derived with deep near-infrared (NIR) medium-band filters. We obtain medium-resolution (R ∼ 3600) NIR spectroscopy with MOSFIRE on the Keck 1 telescope and secure 180 redshifts in a 12'x12' region. We find a prominent spike of 57 galaxies at z = 2.095 corresponding to the galaxy cluster. The cluster velocity dispersion is measured to be σv1D= 552±52 km/s. This is the first study of a galaxy cluster in this redshift range (z ≳ 2.0) with the combination of spectral resolution (∼26 km/s) and the number of confirmed members (>50) needed to impose a meaningful constraint on the cluster velocity dispersion and map its members over a large field of view. Our ΛCDM cosmological simulation suggests that this cluster will most likely evolve into a Virgo-like cluster with Mvir= 1014.4±0.3 M☉(68% confidence) at z ∼ 0. The theoretical probability of finding such a cluster is ∼4%. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of studying galaxy clusters at z > 2 in the same detailed manner using multi-object NIR spectrographs as has been done in the optical in lower-redshift clusters.
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galaxies: clusters: general - galaxies: high-redshift - large-scale structure of universe
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