Bibcode
Contini, T.; Epinat, B.; Bouché, N.; Brinchmann, J.; Boogaard, L. A.; Ventou, E.; Bacon, R.; Richard, J.; Weilbacher, P. M.; Wisotzki, L.; Krajnović, D.; Vielfaure, J.-B.; Emsellem, E.; Finley, H.; Inami, H.; Schaye, J.; Swinbank, M.; Guérou, A.; Martinsson, T.; Michel-Dansac, L.; Schroetter, I.; Shirazi, M.; Soucail, G.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 591, id.A49, 26 pp.
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2016
Journal
Citations
74
Refereed citations
70
Description
Aims: Whereas the evolution of gas kinematics of massive galaxies
is now relatively well established up to redshift z ~ 3, little is known
about the kinematics of lower mass (M⋆≤
1010M⊙) galaxies. We use MUSE, a powerful
wide-field, optical integral-field spectrograph (IFS) recently mounted
on the VLT, to characterize this galaxy population at intermediate
redshift. Methods: We made use of the deepest MUSE observations
performed so far on the Hubble Deep Field South (HDFS). This data cube,
resulting from 27 h of integration time, covers a one arcmin2
field of view at an unprecedented depth (with a 1σ emission-line
surface brightness limit of 1 × 10-19 erg
s-1 cm-2 arcsec-2) and a final spatial
resolution of ≈0.7''. We identified a sample of 28 resolved
emission-line galaxies, extending over an area that is at least twice
the seeing disk, spread over a redshift interval of 0.2