Building the bridge between Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers and Lyman Break galaxies
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
In 2000, we started the program ``Building the Bridge between Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers and Lyman-Break Galaxies: Ly-alpha Selection of Galaxies'' at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. This project is an attempt to use Ly-alpha selection of high-z galaxies to bridge the gap between absorption- and emission-selected galaxies by creating a large database of z=3 galaxies belonging to the abundant population of faint (R>25.5) galaxies probed by the Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers (DLAs). Here we present the first results of our program, namely the results from a deep Ly-alpha study of the field of the z=2.85 DLA towards Q2138-4427.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0205234,
title = {Building the bridge between Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers and Lyman Break galaxies},
author = {J. P. U. Fynbo and C. Ledoux and P. Moller and B. Thomsen and I. Burud and B. Leibundgut},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0205234},
year = {2007}
}
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2 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Revista Mexicana de Astrofisica y Astronomia Conf. Series