A survey for Ly alpha galaxies at z~3.1

2010/09/30 by G. Ventimiglia, Ventimiglia, G., M. Arnaboldi +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph.CO

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1009.6062

5 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in VA

arxiv created 2010/09/30 · arxiv updated 2010/10/01

Abstract

We describe the results of a deep survey for Ly alpha emission line galaxies at z~3.1, carried out with the multislit imaging spectroscopy (MSIS) technique, with the FORS2 spectrograph on VLT-UT1. We discuss the criteria used to select the emission line galaxies and present the main physical characteristics of the sample: redshift, observed flux and equivalent width distributions.

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