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[OIII] Emission and Gas Kinematics in a Lyman-alpha Blob at z ~ 3.1 by McLinden, Emily M.; Malhotra, Sangeeta; Rhoads, James E.; Hibon, Pascale; Weijmans, Anne-Marie; Tilvi, Vithal is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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We present spectroscopic measurements of the [OIII] emission line from two subregions of strong Lyman-alpha emission in a radio-quiet Lyman-alpha blob (LAB). The blob under study is LAB1 (Steidel et al. 2000) at z ~ 3.1, and the [OIII] detections are from the two Lyman break galaxies embedded in the blob halo. The [OIII] measurements were made with LUCIFER on the 8.4m Large Binocular Telescope and NIRSPEC on 10m Keck Telescope. Comparing the redshift of the [OIII] measurements to Lyman-alpha redshifts from SAURON (Weijmans et al. 2010) allows us to take a step towards understanding the kinematics of the gas in the blob. Using both LUCIFER and NIRSPEC we find velocity offsets between the [OIII] and Lyman-alpha redshifts that are modestly negative or consistent with 0 km/s in both subregions studied (ranging from -72 +/- 42 -- +6 +/- 33 km/s). A negative offset means Lyman-alpha is blueshifted with respect to [OIII], a positive offset then implies Lyman-alpha is redshifted with respect to [OIII]. These results may imply that outflows are not primarily responsible for Lyman alpha escape in this LAB, since outflows are generally expected to produce a positive velocity offset (McLinden

Author

McLinden, Emily M.; Malhotra, Sangeeta; Rhoads, James E.; Hibon, Pascale; Weijmans, Anne-Marie; Tilvi, Vithal

Published

2013

Language

EN