Issue |
A&A
Volume 407, Number 2, August IV 2003
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Page(s) | 473 - 483 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20030865 | |
Published online | 17 November 2003 |
The metal absorption systems of the QSO 0103-260 and the galaxy redshift distribution in the FORS Deep Field*
1
Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, 140 W.18th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA
2
Landessternwarte, Königstuhl, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Received:
7
February
2003
Accepted:
4
June
2003
Using the Uves echelle spectrograph at the ESO VLT, we observed the absorption line spectrum of the QSO 0103-260 in the Fors Deep Field. In addition to the expected Lyα forest lines, we detected at least 16 metal absorption systems with highly different ionization levels in the observed spectral range. The redshifts of the metal absorption systems are strongly correlated with the redshift distribution of the high-z galaxies in the Fors Deep Field and with the strength (but not the number density) of the Lyα forest lines. Both the metal systems and the galaxies show clustering at least up to the QSO emission line redshift of 3.365, but only few of these galaxy accumulations seem to form bound systems.
Key words: galaxies: high-redshift / galaxies: quasars: absorption lines / galaxies: intergalactic medium / cosmology: early universe
© ESO, 2003
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