MRC 0316-257

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MRC 0316-257
DESI Legacy Surveys image of MRC 0316-257.jpg
MRC 0316-257, as seen by DESI Legacy Surveys
Observation data (J2000.0 epoch)
Constellation Fornax
Right ascension 03h 18m 12.01s
Declination -25d 35m 10.80s
Redshift 3.130700
Heliocentric radial velocity 938,560 km/s
Distance 11.262 Gly (Light travel time distance)
Apparent magnitude  (V)0.040
Apparent magnitude  (B)0.053
Surface brightness 23.6
Characteristics
Type Radio galaxy
Other designations
PKS 0315-257, PGC 2823475, PMN J0318-2535, OE -227, TXS 0316-257, NVSS J031812-253509

MRC 0316-257 is a radio galaxy located in the constellation Fornax. Its redshift is 3.13, making the object located roughly 11 billion light-years from Earth. [1]

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Characteristics

MRC 0316-257 is classified as a high redshift radio galaxy. [2] [3] It is found to be hosted inside a massive star-forming galaxy containing large reservoirs of gas and interstellar dust. [4] [5] Such host galaxies like MRC 0316-257 are believed to be progenitors of massive elliptical galaxies that are present in the local universe, given most powerful radio galaxies are hosted in ellipticals that are considered large. [6] [7] Its 1.5-Jy radio source was listed in the 408-MHz Molonglo Reference Catalogue which was optically identified with a galaxy at z= 3.13 [8] with a typical radio luminosity and radio loudness of L5 = 1043 - 1044 ergs −1 and log R = 3–4. [9]

MRC 0316-257 protocluster

MRC 0316-257 is situated in the center of a massive protocluster. [10] [11] The cluster has a larger size compared than 3.3x3.3 Mpc^2, which its mass structure is estimated to be > 3-6x10^14 M_sun. This makes it a progenitor of the cluster of galaxies similar like the Virgo cluster. [12]

Two Lyα emitting companions located at z = 3.1378 +/- 0.0028 and z = 3.1351 +/- 0.0028, are found in the MRC 0316-257 protocluster according to research conducted by Le Fevre et al. (1996). [13] The first galaxy is 0.3 h ^{-1}50 Mpc from MRC 0316–257, which is then resolved with an intrinsic size of 11.6 +/- 1.1 h ^{-1}50 kpc, and a Ly alpha in emission with rest WLy alpha = 55 +/- 14 A. The galaxy has an extremely blue V - I color indicating it as a protogalaxy in the midst of forming the first stars in a low-dust medium. The second is at least 1.3 h ^{-1}50 Mpc. The galaxy is marginally resolved, which in addition to Ly alpha in emission, there is C IV in emission with its broad component indicating the contribution from the active galactic nucleus. [13]

The protocluster has a comoving density. These galaxies have V < 23.8 and Ly alpha flux greater than 10-16 ergs cm-2 s-1 within the vicinity of MRC 0316–257. They have ~2.5 x 10-3 h 350 Mpc-3, making them significantly higher than the expected background density of field galaxies, suggesting as a rich cluster. [13]

Through spectroscopy of 40 candidate emitters, 33 emission-line galaxies are discovered. 31 are Ly-alpha emitters with similar redshifts of MRC 0316–257, while the remaining two turned out to be [OII] emitters, with widths between the range of 120–800 km/s, with a median of 260 km/s. They are asymmetric, with apparent absorption troughs blueward of the profile peaks, indicative of absorption along the line of sight of an HI mass of at least 2x10^2 - 5x10^4 M_sun and are found to be faint, blue and small and consistent with young star forming galaxies considered as dust free. [12]

The volume density of Ly-alpha emitting galaxies in the field around MRC 0316-257 have a factor of 3.3+0.5-0.4. This are larger compared with the density of field Ly-alpha emitters at that redshift with a velocity distribution of 1510 km/s, smaller than the width of the narrow-band filter (FWHM ~ 3500 km/s). The velocity distribution is at the peak of 200 km/s, which is within the redshift, thus confirming Ly-alpha emitter galaxies as members of a protocluster at z~3.13. [12]

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