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B2 0902+34: A Collapsing Protogiant Elliptical Galaxy at z = 3.4

  • Authors: Joshua J. Adams, Gary J. Hill, and Phillip J. MacQueen

ADAMS, HILL, & MACQUEEN 2009 The Astrophysical Journal 694 314.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Log contours of surface brightness. Left: fits to the data. The primary and secondary peaks are respectively dark and light. Middle: the simulations described in Section 3, where the same type of spectral decomposition as for the data between primary and secondary is performed. Right: the same simulations, but now with a decomposition regardless of the spectral signature but where the dark contour follows emission from the near photoionized cone and the light contour from the rear photoionized cone. This optimistically represents a clean detangling of spectral signal that a model with more optimized parameters may accomplish.

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