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NIR spectroscopic observation of massive galaxies in the protocluster at z = 3.09

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2015-06-23 v1

Abstract

We present the results of near-infrared spectroscopic observations of the KK-band selected candidate galaxies in the protocluster at z=3.09z=3.09 in the SSA22 field. We observed 67 candidates with KAB<24K_{\rm AB}<24 and confirmed redshifts of the 39 galaxies at 2.0<zspec<3.42.0< z_{\rm spec}< 3.4. Of the 67 candidates, 24 are certainly protocluster members with 3.04zspec3.123.04\leq z_{\rm spec}\leq 3.12, which are massive red galaxies those have been unidentified in previous optical observations of the SSA22 protocluster. Many distant red galaxies (DRGs; JKAB>1.4J-K_{\rm AB}>1.4), hyper extremely red objects (HEROs; JKAB>2.1J-K_{\rm AB}>2.1), {\it Spitzer} MIPS 24 μ\mum sources, active galactic nuclei (AGNs) as well as the counterparts of Lyα\alpha blobs and the AzTEC/ASTE 1.1-mm sources in the SSA22 field are also found to be the protocluster members. The mass of the SSA22 protocluster is estimated to be 25×1014 M\sim2-5\times10^{14}~M_{\odot} and this system is plausibly a progenitor of the most massive clusters of galaxies in the current Universe. The reddest (JKAB2.4J-K_{\rm AB}\geq 2.4) protocluster galaxies are massive galaxies with Mstar1011 MM_{\rm star}\sim10^{11}~M_{\odot} showing quiescent star formation activities and plausibly dominated by old stellar populations. Most of these massive quiescent galaxies host moderately luminous AGNs detected by X-ray. There are no significant differences in the [O{\footnotesize III}] λ\lambda5007/Hβ\beta emission line ratios, and [O{\footnotesize III}] λ\lambda5007 line widths and spatial extents of the protocluster galaxies from those of massive galaxies at z23z\sim2-3 in the general field.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2663,
  title  = {NIR spectroscopic observation of massive galaxies in the protocluster at z = 3.09},
  author = {Mariko Kubo and Toru Yamada and Takashi Ichikawa and Masaru Kajisawa and Yuichi Matsuda and Ichi Tanaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2663},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages, 8 Figures; accepted for publication on ApJ