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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 634, Issue 2, Pages L125-L128Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/499071
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cosmology : observations; galaxies : formation; galaxies : high-redshift; large-scale structure of universe
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We report the discovery of a large-scale coherent filamentary structure of Ly alpha emitters in the redshift space at. We carried out spectroscopic observations to map the three-dimensional structure of the beltlike z = 3.1 feature of the Ly alpha emitters discovered by our previous narrowband imaging observations centered on the protocluster at. The feature was found to consist of at least three physical filaments connecting with each z = 3.1 other. The result is in qualitative agreement with the prediction of the biased galaxy formation theories that galaxies preferentially formed in large-scale filamentary or sheetlike mass overdensities in the early universe. We also found that the two known giant Ly alpha emission-line nebulae showing high star formation activities are located near the intersection of these filaments, which presumably evolves into a massive cluster of galaxies in the local universe. This may suggest that massive galaxy formation occurs at a characteristic place in the surrounding large-scale structure at high redshift.
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