Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
ODIN: Identifying Protoclusters and Cosmic Filaments Traced by Lyα-emitting Galaxies |
| Authors: |
Vandana Ramakrishnan, Kyoung-Soo Lee, Maria Celeste Artale, Eric Gawiser, Yujin Yang, Changbom Park, Yi-Kuan Chiang, Robin Ciardullo, Arjun Dey, Caryl Gronwall, Lucia Guaita, Ho Seong Hwang, Sang Hyeok Im, Woong-Seob Jeong, Seongjae Kim, Ankit Kumar, Jaehyun Lee, Seong-Kook Lee, Byeongha Moon, Nelson Padilla, Alexandra Pope, Roxana Popescu, Akriti Singh, Hyunmi Song, Paulina Troncoso, Francisco Valdes, Ann Zabludoff |
| Source: |
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 977, Iss 1, p 119 (2024) |
| Publisher Information: |
IOP Publishing, 2024. |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
LCC:Astrophysics |
| Subject Terms: |
High-redshift galaxy clusters, Large-scale structure of the universe, Lyα galaxies, Astrophysics, QB460-466 |
| More Details: |
To understand the formation and evolution of massive cosmic structures, studying them at high redshift, in the epoch when they formed the majority of their mass, is essential. The One-hundred-deg ^2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey is undertaking the widest-area narrowband program to date, to use Ly α -emitting galaxies (LAEs) to trace the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe on the scale of 10–100 cMpc at three cosmic epochs. In this work, we present results at z = 3.1 based on early ODIN data in the COSMOS field. We identify protoclusters and cosmic filaments using multiple methods and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. We then compare our observations against the IllustrisTNG suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The two are in excellent agreement, identifying a similar number and angular size of structures above a specified density threshold. We successfully recover the simulated protoclusters with log( M _z _=0 / M _⊙ ) ≳ 14.4 in ∼60% of the cases. With these objects, we show that the descendant masses of our observed protoclusters can be estimated purely based on our 2D measurements, finding a median z = 0 mass of ∼10 ^14.5 M _⊙ . The lack of information on the radial extent of each protocluster introduces a ∼0.4 dex uncertainty in its descendant mass. Finally, we show that the recovery of the cosmic web in the vicinity of protoclusters is both efficient and accurate. The similarity of our observations and the simulations implies that our structure selection is likewise robust and efficient, demonstrating that LAEs are reliable tracers of the LSS. |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
1538-4357 |
| Relation: |
https://doaj.org/toc/1538-4357 |
| DOI: |
10.3847/1538-4357/ad83cb |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/12de315abfea44719a9edeb1fea04780 |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.12de315abfea44719a9edeb1fea04780 |
| Database: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
