The Distribution of Lyα-Emitting Galaxies at z=2.38. II. Spectroscopy

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

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The Distribution of Lyα-Emitting Galaxies at z=2.38. II. Spectroscopy

Date

2004

Authors

Francis, Paul

Palunas, Povilas

Teplitz, Harry

Williger, Gerard

Woodgate, Bruce

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

In Paper 1 of this series we identified an 80 comoving Mpc filament of candidate Lyα-emitting galaxies at redshift 2.38. In this paper we present spectroscopy of the 37 galaxy candidates. Our spectroscopy reached a surface brightness limit of 5.0 × 10 -