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Redshift clustering in the Hubble Deep Field

Astrophysics 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We present initial results from a redshift survey carried out with the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph on the 10~m W. M. Keck Telescope in the Hubble Deep Field. In the redshift distribution of the 140 extragalactic objects in this sample we find 6 strong peaks, with velocity dispersions of 400{\sim}400{\kms}. The areal density of objects within a particular peak, while it may be non-uniform, does not show evidence for strong central concentration. These peaks have characteristics (velocity dispersions, density enhancements, spacing, and spatial extent) similar to those seen in a comparable redshift survey in a different high galactic latitude field (Cohen et al 1996), confirming that the structures are generic. They are probably the high redshift counterparts of huge galaxy structures (``walls'') observed locally.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9608121,
  title  = {Redshift clustering in the Hubble Deep Field},
  author = {Judith G. Cohen and Lennox L. Cowie and David W. Hogg and Antoinette Songaila and Roger Blandford and Esther M. Hu and Patrick Shopbell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9608121},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, including 2 figures, to appear in ApJ Letters

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