AzTEC-3
(AzTEC J100020.54+023509.3, COSMOS AzTEC-3)
(very distant starburst galaxy)
AzTEC-3 (aka AzTEC J100020.54+023509.3
or COSMOS AzTEC-3)
is a high-redshift starburst galaxy with
an extremely high star formation rate, discovered in 2008
at z = 5.3 by AzTEC, a bolometer-array camera,
at the time installed on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT).
The galaxy is surrounded by a group of galaxies
forming stars at high-but-more-usual
rates and shows signs of a recent galaxy merger.
It lends evidence to the theory
that galaxies grew through mergers and through
the effect of mergers on their gas.
Using a more precise method than Hubble's law,
its redshift indicates a distance of roughly 12.6 Gly,
about a billion years after the Big Bang.
The grouped galaxies are considered a proto-cluster,
which is the most distant known galaxy group or cluster.
The cluster is often referred to by the galaxy's name,
e.g., the cluster AzTEC-3 or the AzTEC-3 cluster.
(galaxy,starburst,distant)
Further reading:
https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/alma-protocluster
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...738...36D/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008MNRAS.385.2225S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...864...49P/abstract
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=AzTEC+3
Redshift | Parsecs /Distance | Lightyears /Lookback Years | | |
5.3 | 4.08Gpc | 13.29Gly | | AzTEC-3 |
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Coordinates: | AzTEC-3 J100020.690+023520.37 |
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