Bibcode
Shimakawa, Rhythm; Koyama, Yusei; Röttgering, Huub J. A.; Kodama, Tadayuki; Hayashi, Masao; Hatch, Nina A.; Dannerbauer, Helmut; Tanaka, Ichi; Tadaki, Ken-ichi; Suzuki, Tomoko L.; Fukagawa, Nao; Cai, Zheng; Kurk, Jaron D.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 481, Issue 4, p.5630-5650
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2018
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This paper is the second in a series presenting the results of our deep
H α-line survey towards protoclusters at z > 2, based on
narrow-band imaging with the Subaru Telescope. This work investigates
massive galaxies in a protocluster region associated with a radio galaxy
(PKS 1138 - 262), the Spiderweb galaxy, at z = 2.2. Our 0.5 mag deeper
narrow-band imaging than previous surveys collects a total of 68 H
α emitters (HAE). Here, 17 out of the 68 are newly discovered
protocluster members. First, a very high characteristic stellar mass of
M_\star ^\ast = 10^{11.73} M⊙ is measured from a
Schechter function fit to the mass distribution of HAEs. Together with
the Chandra X-ray data, we find that four out of six massive HAEs
(M⋆ > 1011 M⊙) show bright
X-ray emission, suggesting that they host active galactic nuclei (AGNs).
Their mass estimates, therefore, would be affected by the nuclear
emission from AGNs. Notably, the X-ray-detected HAEs are likely
positioned near the boundary between star-forming and quiescent
populations in the rest-frame UVJ plane. Moreover, our deep narrow-band
data succeed in probing the bright H α (+ [N II]) line nebula of
the Spiderweb galaxy extending over ˜100 physical kpc. These
results suggest that the massive galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster
are on the way to becoming the bright red sequence objects seen in local
galaxy clusters, where AGNs might play an essential role in their
quenching processes, though a more statistical database is needed to
build a general picture.
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