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[Abridged] We characterise a massive proto-cluster at z=2.895 that we found in the COSMOS field using the spectroscopic sample of the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey (VUDS). This is one of the rare structures at z~3 not identified around AGNs or…

We present a detailed study of Near-IR selected galaxies in a protocluster field at z = 3.13. Protocluster galaxies are selected using the available mutliwavelength data with the photometric redshift (photo-z) at 2.9 < z < 3.3, reaching a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Ke Shi , Jun Toshikawa , Zheng Cai , Kyoung-Soo Lee , Taotao Fang

We report the discovery of a Lyman-alpha emitter (LAE) protocluster at z = 4.90 in the COSMOS field, comprising four distinct overdensity peaks spanning ~65 x 36 cMpc$^2$, with the primary concentration exhibiting a 4-fold surface density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-06 Ronaldo Laishram , Yusei Koyama , Haruka Kusakabe , Satoshi Kikuta , Shunta Shimizu , Tadayuki Kodama

We present a detailed study of a rich galaxy cluster at z=2.38. We demonstrate that this cluster contains large overdensities of damped Ly-alpha absorption lines, of Ly-alpha emitting galaxies and of extremely red objects. The overdensity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul J. Francis , Bruce E. Woodgate , Anthony C. Danks

We present follow-up spectroscopy on a protocluster candidate selected from the wide-field imaging of the Hyper SuprimeCam Subaru Strategic Programme. The target protocluster candidate was identified as a $4.5\sigma$ overdense region of…

Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally bound structures in the Universe, comprising thousands of galaxies and pervaded by a diffuse, hot ``intracluster medium'' (ICM) that dominates the baryonic content of these systems. The…

The progenitors of present-day galaxy clusters offer crucial insight into how galaxies and large-scale structure co-evolve in the early Universe. We present JWST/NIRCam grism spectroscopy of the photometrically identified $z=7.66$…

Ly-$\alpha$ tomography surveys have begun to produce three-dimensional (3D) maps of the intergalactic medium (IGM) opacity at $z \sim 2.5$ with Mpc resolution. These surveys provide an exciting new way to discover and characterize…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-14 Mahdi Qezlou , Andrew B. Newman , Gwen C. Rudie , Simeon Bird

We present a novel approach of identifying the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31) progenitors that could be visible as LAEs at z~6: we couple a snapshot from the Constrained Local UniversE Simulations (CLUES) project, that successfully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pratika Dayal , Noam I Libeskind

We use a novel technique to simulate the growth of the most massive progenitor of a protocluster region from redshift z~80, when its mass was about 10 Msun until the present day. Our nested sequence of N-body resimulations allows us to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Liang Gao , Simon D. M. White , Adrian Jenkins , Carlos Frenk , Volker Springel

The early Universe at redshift z\sim6-11 marks the reionization of the intergalactic medium, following the formation of the first generation of stars. However, those young galaxies at a cosmic age of \lesssim 500 million years (Myr, at z…

We report the discovery of a protocluster at z~6 containing at least eight cluster member galaxies with spectroscopic confirmations in the wide-field image of the Subaru Deep Field (SDF). The overdensity of the protocluster is significant…

We present the discovery of three protoclusters at $z\sim3\mathrm{-}4$ with spectroscopic confirmation in the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Legacy Survey Deep Fields. In these fields, we investigate the large-scale projected sky…

Ly$\alpha$-emitting galaxies (LAEs) are easily detectable in the high-redshift Universe and are potentially efficient tracers of large scale structure at early epochs, as long as their observed properties do not strongly depend on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Nicola Malavasi , Kyoung-Soo Lee , Arjun Dey , Rui Xue , Yun Huang , Ke Shi

JWST has revealed an overabundance of apparent (`Coma'-like) cluster progenitors at $z>5$ that is $\sim$ two (300) times in excess of, and in $2.3\sigma$ ($4\sigma$) tension with, the number density of such objects at present day and…

We present a comprehensive theoretical study, using a semi-analytical model within the standard LCDM framework, of the photometric properties of the progenitors of present-day early-type galaxies in the redshift range 0<z<1. We explore…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-14 Sugata Kaviraj , Julien Devriendt , Ignacio Ferreras , Sukyoung Yi , Joseph Silk

We report the discovery of a probable large scale structure composed of many galaxy clumps around the known twin clusters at z=1.26 and z=1.27 in the Lynx region. Our analysis is based on deep, panoramic, and multi-colour imaging…

We study the environments of 6 radio galaxies at 2.2 < z < 2.6 using wide-field near-infrared images. We use colour cuts to identify galaxies in this redshift range, and find that three of the radio galaxies are surrounded by significant…

The redshift range z=2-4 marks a critical transition in large scale structure formation, where the dynamically unrelaxed progenitors of local massive clusters undergo rapid stellar mass assembly. We report the discovery and physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-18 Shuaiyi Li , Zheng Cai , Yunjing Wu , Fujiang Yu , Xiaojing Lin , Jingyang Men , Xiaoyang Wei