Giant Lyα nebulae in the high redshift (z ⩾ 2) Universe
✍ Scribed by Montse Villar-Martín
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 724 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1387-6473
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✦ Synopsis
High redshift radio galaxies (z P 2) are believed to be progenitors of the giant ellipticals of today. They are often associated with giant Lya nebulae (sometimes >100 kpc), which have been for almost three decades valuable sources of information about the evolutionary status of the host galaxy and its chemical enrichment and star formation histories.
I present in this paper a summary of the most relevant results about the giant nebulae obtained in the last $10 years and the implications on our understanding of the early phases of evolution of massive elliptical galaxies. An interesting earlier review can be found in McCarthy (1993).