Giant Ly-alpha nebulae in the high redshift (z>2) Universe
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
High redshift radio galaxies (z>2) are believed to be progenitors of the giant ellipticals of today. They are often associated with giant Ly-alpha nebulae (sometimes >100 kpc), which have been for more than two decades valuable sources of information about the evolutionary status of the host galaxy and its chemical enrichment and star formation histories. I present in this paper a summary of the most relevant results about the giant nebulae obtained in the last ~10 years and the implications on our understanding of the early phases of evolution of massive elliptical galaxies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0611763,
title = {Giant Ly-alpha nebulae in the high redshift (z>2) Universe},
author = {Montse Villar-Martin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0611763},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Presented at the workshop on The Fate of the Gas in Galaxies, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands, July 2006. To appear in New Astronomy Reviews; 7 pages, 7 figures