The Distribution of Lyα-Emitting Galaxies at z=2.38

Palunas, Povilas; Teplitz, Harry; Francis, Paul; Williger, Gerard; Woodgate, Bruce

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The Distribution of Lyα-Emitting Galaxies at z=2.38

Date

2004

Authors

Palunas, Povilas

Teplitz, Harry

Francis, Paul

Williger, Gerard

Woodgate, Bruce

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present the detection of 34 Lyα emission-line galaxy candidates in a 80 × 80 × 60 comoving Mpc region surrounding the known z = 2.38 galaxy cluster J2143-4423. The space density of Lyα emitters is comparable to that found by Steidel et al. when tar