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  • Spectroscopic Confirmation ...
    Darvish, Behnam; Scoville, Nick Z.; Martin, Christopher; Sobral, David; Mobasher, Bahram; Rettura, Alessandro; Matthee, Jorryt; Capak, Peter; Chartab, Nima; Hemmati, Shoubaneh; Masters, Daniel; Nayyeri, Hooshang; O'Sullivan, Donal; Paulino-Afonso, Ana; Sattari, Zahra; Shahidi, Abtin; Salvato, Mara; Lemaux, Brian C.; Fèvre, Olivier Le; Cucciati, Olga

    The Astrophysical journal, 03/2020, Letnik: 892, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    We report the spectroscopic confirmation of a new protocluster in the COSMOS field at z ∼ 2.2, COSMOS Cluster 2.2 (CC2.2), originally identified as an overdensity of narrowband selected H emitting candidates. With only two masks of Keck/MOSFIRE near-IR spectroscopy in both H (∼1.47-1.81 m) and K (∼1.92-2.40 m) bands (∼1.5 hr each), we confirm 35 unique protocluster members with at least two emission lines detected with S/N > 3. Combined with 12 extra members from the zCOSMOS-deep spectroscopic survey (47 in total), we estimate a mean redshift and a line-of-sight velocity dispersion of zmean = 2.23224 0.00101 and los = 645 69 km s−1 for this protocluster, respectively. Assuming virialization and spherical symmetry for the system, we estimate a total mass of Mvir ∼ (1-2) ×1014M for the structure. We evaluate a number density enhancement of δg ∼ 7 for this system and we argue that the structure is likely not fully virialized at z ∼ 2.2. However, in a spherical collapse model, δg is expected to grow to a linear matter enhancement of ∼1.9 by z = 0, exceeding the collapse threshold of 1.69, and leading to a fully collapsed and virialized Coma-type structure with a total mass of Mdyn(z = 0) ∼ 9.2 × 1014M by now. This observationally efficient confirmation suggests that large narrowband emission-line galaxy surveys, when combined with ancillary photometric data, can be used to effectively trace the large-scale structure and protoclusters at a time when they are mostly dominated by star-forming galaxies.