Building the bridge between Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers and Lyman Break galaxies

B. Leibundgut (ESO); B. Thomsen (IFA; C. Ledoux (ESO); I. Burud (STScI); J. P. U. Fynbo (ESO); P. Moller (ESO); University of Aarhus)

arxiv: astro-ph/0205234 · v2 · submitted 2002-05-15 · 🌌 astro-ph

Building the bridge between Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers and Lyman Break galaxies

J. P. U. Fynbo (ESO) , C. Ledoux (ESO) , P. Moller (ESO) , B. Thomsen (IFA , University of Aarhus) , I. Burud (STScI) , B. Leibundgut (ESO) This is my paper

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In 2000, we started the program ``Building the Bridge between Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers and Lyman-Break Galaxies: Ly-alpha Selection of Galaxies'' at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. This project is an attempt to use Ly-alpha selection of high-z galaxies to bridge the gap between absorption- and emission-selected galaxies by creating a large database of z=3 galaxies belonging to the abundant population of faint (R>25.5) galaxies probed by the Damped Ly-alpha Absorbers (DLAs). Here we present the first results of our program, namely the results from a deep Ly-alpha study of the field of the z=2.85 DLA towards Q2138-4427.

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