NICMOS Imaging of the Dusty Microjansky Radio Source VLA J123642+621331 at z = 4.424.

نویسندگان

  • Waddington
  • Windhorst
  • Cohen
  • Partridge
  • Spinrad
  • Stern
چکیده

We present the discovery of a radio galaxy at a likely redshift of z=4.424 in one of the flanking fields of the Hubble Deep Field (HDF). Radio observations with the Very Large Array and MERLIN centered on the HDF yielded a complete sample of microjansky radio sources, of which about 20% have no optical counterpart to I</=25 mag. In this Letter, we address the possible nature of one of these sources through deep Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared camera and multiobject spectrometer (NICMOS) images in the F110W (J110) and F160W (H160) filters. VLA J123642+621331 has a single emission line at 6595 Å, which we identify with Lyalpha at z=4.424. We argue that this faint (H160=23.9 mag), compact (re approximately 0&farcs;2), red (I814-K=2.0) object is most likely a dusty, star-forming galaxy with an embedded active nucleus.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Astrophysical journal

دوره 526 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999