A Pair of Compact Red Galaxies at Redshift 2.38, Immersed in a 100 Kiloparsec Scale Ly Nebula

Francis, PaulWilliger, GerardCollins, NicholasPalunas, PovilasMalumuth, EliotWoodgate, BruceTeplitz, HarrySmette, AlainSutherland, RalphDanks, AnthonyHill, Robert SLindler, DonaldKimble, Randy AHeap, SaraHutchings, John2015-12-132015-12-130004-637Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/94702We present Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observations of a pair of galaxies at a redshift of 2.38, which are collectively known as 2142-4420 B1. Both galaxies are luminous extremely red objects (EROs) and are separated by 0.″8. They are embeddKeywords: Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: high-redshift; Galaxies: interactionsA Pair of Compact Red Galaxies at Redshift 2.38, Immersed in a 100 Kiloparsec Scale Ly Nebula200110.1086/3214172015-12-12