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#59 astrodeep200407a HUDF, Spitzer #3 4.90z old tiny galaxy 492X491 heic0714aa

ubiquitous bright blue 1-12 pixel sources on darker 3D fractal web in five

2007.09.06 IR and visible light HUDF images, Nor Pirzkal, Sangeeta

Malhotra, James E Rhoads, Chun Xu, -- might be clusters of earliest

hypernovae in recent cosmological simulations: Rich Murray 2008.08.17

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The 5 closeups are about 2.2x2.2 arc-seconds wide and high, about 70x70 pixels.

The HUDF is 315x315 arc-seconds, with N at top and E at left.

Each side has 10,500x10,500 pixels at 0.03 arc-second per pixel.

 

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3022x2496 pixels, which can be also be conveniently seen directly at their Zoomable image:

 

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Notable in the deep background of the five closeups are ubiquitous bright blue sources, presumably extremely hot ultraviolet before redshifting, 1 to a dozen or so pixels, as single or short lines of spots, and a few irregular tiny blobs, probably, as predicted in many recent simulations, the earliest massive, short-lived hypernovae, GRBs with jets at various angles to our line of sight, expanding bubbles, earliest molecular and dust clouds with light echoes and bursts of star formation, and first small dwarf galaxies, always associated with a subtle darker 3D random fractal mesh of filaments of H and He atomic gases.

 

As a scientific layman, I am grateful for specific cogent, civil feedback, based on the details readily visible in images in the public domain.

 

 

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Hubble and Spitzer Uncover Smallest Galaxy Building Blocks

 

In this image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, several objects are identified

as the faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant

Universe.

They are so far away that we see them as they looked less than one billion

years after the Big Bang.

Blazing with the brilliance of millions of stars, each of the newly

discovered galaxies is a hundred to a thousand times smaller than our Milky

Way Galaxy.

 

The bottom row of pictures shows several of these clumps (distance expressed

in redshift value).

Three of the galaxies appear to be slightly disrupted.

Rather than being shaped like rounded blobs, they appear stretched into

tadpole-like shapes.

This is a sign that they may be interacting and merging with neighboring

galaxies to form larger structures.

 

The detection required joint observations between Hubble and NASA's Spitzer

Space Telescope.

Blue light seen by Hubble shows the presence of young stars.

The absence of red light from Spitzer observations conclusively shows that

these are truly young galaxies without an earlier generation of stars.

 

Credit: NASA, ESA, and N. Pirzkal (European Space Agency/STScI)

 

Id: heic0714a

Object: HUDF, UDF, Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Type: Cosmology

Instrument: ACS

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Height: 3312

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HEIC0714: EMBARGOED UNTIL 18:00 (CEST)/12:00 PM EDT 06 September, 2007

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News release:

Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes find “Lego-block” galaxies in early

Universe

 

06-September 2007 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA

Spitzer Space Telescope have joined forces to discover nine of the

smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant

Universe. Blazing with the brilliance of millions of stars, each of the

newly discovered galaxies is a hundred to a thousand times smaller than

our Milky Way Galaxy.

 

The conventional model for galaxy evolution predicts that small galaxies

in the early Universe evolved into the massive galaxies of today by

coalescing. Nine Lego-like “building block” galaxies initially detected

by Hubble likely contributed to the construction of the Universe as we

know it. “These are among the lowest mass galaxies ever directly

observed in the early Universe” says Nor Pirzkal of the European Space

Agency/STScI.

 

Pirzkal was surprised to find that the galaxies’ estimated masses were

so small. Hubble’s cousin observatory, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope

was called upon to make precise determinations of their masses. The

Spitzer observations confirmed that these galaxies are some of the

smallest building blocks of the Universe.

 

These young galaxies offer important new insights into the Universe’s

formative years, just one billion years after the Big Bang. Hubble

detected sapphire blue stars residing within the nine pristine galaxies.

The youthful stars are just a few million years old and are in the

process of turning Big Bang elements (hydrogen and helium) into heavier

elements. The stars have probably not yet begun to pollute the

surrounding space with elemental products forged within their cores.

 

“While blue light seen by Hubble shows the presence of young stars, it

is the absence of infrared light in the sensitive Spitzer images that

was conclusive in showing that these are truly young galaxies without an

earlier generation of stars,” says Sangeeta Malhotra of Arizona State

University in Tempe, USA, one of the investigators.

 

The galaxies were first identified by James Rhoads of Arizona State

University, USA, and Chun Xu of the Shanghai Institute of Technical

Physics in Shanghai, China. Three of the galaxies appear to be slightly

disrupted -- rather than being shaped like rounded blobs, they appear

stretched into tadpole-like shapes. This is a sign that they may be

interacting and merging with neighbouring galaxies to form larger,

cohesive structures.

 

The galaxies were observed in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) with

Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Near Infrared Camera and

Multi-Object Spectrometer as well as Spitzer’s Infrared Array Camera and

the European Southern Observatory’s Infrared Spectrometer and Array

Camera. Seeing and analysing such small galaxies at such a great

distance is at the very limit of the capabilities of the most powerful

telescopes. Images taken through different colour filters with the ACS

were supplemented with exposures taken through a so-called grism which

spreads the different colours emitted by the galaxies into short

“trails”. The analysis of these trails allows the detection of emission

from glowing hydrogen gas, giving both the distance and an estimate of

the rate of star formation. These “grism spectra” -- taken with Hubble

and analysed with software developed at the Space Telescope-European

Coordinating Facility in Munich, Germany -- can be obtained for objects

that are significantly fainter than can be studied spectroscopically

with any other current telescope.

 

# # #

 

Notes for editors

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation

between ESA and NASA.

 

Pirzkal’s main collaborators were Malhotra, Rhoads, Xu, and the GRism

ACS Program for Extragalactic Science (GRAPES) team.

 

Image credit: NASA, ESA and N. Pirzkal (European Space Agency/STScI)

 

If you wish to no longer receive these News and Photo Releases, please

send an email to distribution@spacetelescope.org with your name.

 

For more information, please contact:

Nor Pirzkal ;

European Space Agency/Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA

Tel: 410-338-4879

 

Lars Lindberg Christensen ;

Hubble/ESA, Garching, Germany

Tel: +49-(0)89-3200-6306

Cellular: +49-(0)173-3872-621

 

Ray Villard ;

Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA

Tel: +1-410-338-4514

 

Whitney Clavin

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA

Tel: +1-818-354-4673

 

 

AST HUDF Spitzer IR 9 galaxies z 4-5.7, N Pirzdal, S Malhotra, JE Rhoads, C Xu, 2007.05.01 28p

 

www.spacetelescope.org/news/science_paper/0612513.pdf

 

 

arXiv:astro-ph/0612513v2 1 May 2007

Optical to mid-IR observations of Lyman-! galaxies at z about 5 in the HUDF: a young and low mass population

N. Pirzkal 1,2,

S. Malhotra 3,

J. E. Rhoads 3,

C. Xu 4

 

ABSTRACT

 

High redshift galaxies selected on the basis of their strong Lyman-! emission tend to be young ages and small physical sizes.

 

We show this by analyzing the spectral energy distribution (SED) of 9 Lyman-! emitting (LAE) galaxies at 4.0 < z < 5.7 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF).

 

Rest-frame UV to optical 700°A < " < 7500°A luminosities, or upper limits, are used to constrain old stellar populations.

 

We derive best fit, as well as maximally massive and maximally old, properties of all 9 objects.

 

We show that these faint and distant objects are all very young, being most likely only a few millions years old, and not massive, the mass in stars being ! 106 − 108 M!.

 

Deep Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) observations of these objects, even in cases where objects were not detected, were crucial in constraining the masses of these objects.

 

The space density of these objects, ! 1.25× 10−4 Mpc−3 is comparable to previously reported space density of LAEs at moderate to high redshifts.

 

These Lyman-! galaxies show modest star formation rates of ! 8 M! yr−1, which is nevertheless strong enough to have allowed these galaxies to assemble their stellar mass in less than a few ×106 years.

 

These sources appear to have small physical sizes, usually smaller than 1 Kpc, and are also rather concentrated.

 

They are likely to be some of the least massive and youngest high redshift galaxies observed to date.

 

Subject headings: galaxies: evolution, galaxies: high redshift, galaxies: formation, galaxies: structure, surveys, cosmology

 

1 Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

2 Affiliated with the Space Science Telescope Division of the European Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk,

The Netherlands

3 School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

4 Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, 500 Yutian Road, Shanghai, P.R. China 200083

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bright blue 1-4 pixel sources on darker 3D fractal web in IR and visible light

HUDF images -- might be the clusters of earliest hypernovae in the

Naoki Yoshida and Lars Hernquist simulation: Rich Murray 2008.07.31

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