Low-Metallicity Gas Clouds in a Galaxy Protocluster at Redshift 2.38

Francis, Paul; Williger, Gerard

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Low-Metallicity Gas Clouds in a Galaxy Protocluster at Redshift 2.38

Date

2004

Authors

Francis, Paul

Williger, Gerard

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present high-resolution spectroscopy of a QSO whose sight line passes through the halo of a pair of elliptical galaxies at redshift 2.38. This pair of galaxies probably lies at the center of a galaxy protocluster and is embedded in a luminous extended