Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Detection of companion galaxies around hot dust-obscured hyper-luminous galaxy W0410-0913

  • M. Ginolfi,
  • E. Piconcelli,
  • L. Zappacosta,
  • G. C. Jones,
  • L. Pentericci,
  • R. Maiolino,
  • A. Travascio,
  • N. Menci,
  • S. Carniani,
  • F. Rizzo,
  • F. Arrigoni Battaia,
  • S. Cantalupo,
  • C. De Breuck,
  • L. Graziani,
  • K. Knudsen,
  • P. Laursen,
  • V. Mainieri,
  • R. Schneider,
  • F. Stanley,
  • R. Valiante,
  • A. Verhamme

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32297-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Lyman-alpha emission is one of the observational probes for the high-redshift universe. Here, the authors show several Lyman-alpha emitting companion galaxies around the hot dust-obscured galaxy W0410-091 suggesting that the galaxy evolves in a very dense environment.