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Imaging around PC1643+4631A at the Lyman limit

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We present a list of candidates for high redshift late-type galaxies in the field around the z=3.79 quasar PC1643+4631A. Deep U,V and R imaging has been used to search for objects with a strong Lyman break between U and V, characteristic of galaxies with high hydrogen column densities at z3z\sim 3. A further study of the red objects detected by Hu & Ridgway (1994) has been done, allowing the temptative identification of many of them as low redshift (z0.4z\sim 0.4) elliptical galaxies.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9801150,
  title  = {Imaging around PC1643+4631A at the Lyman limit},
  author = {I. Ferreras and N. Benitez and E. Martinez-Gonzalez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9801150},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages LaTeX (aa.cls), plus 4 EPS figures. Accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics