VIMOS IFU observations of the RCS0224-002 Cluster

RCS0224-002 is a massive galaxy cluster at z=0.77, and was first identified using the Red Cluster Sequence project. This galaxy cluster was found to contain a number of giant luminous arcs. Follow-up spectroscopy confirmed a redshift of z=4.88 for the red arc to the North West of the galaxy cluster. Our observations follow-up this galaxy using the VIMOS and SINFONI IFU's on the VLT to probe the internal properties of this z=4.88 lensed LBG. More information on our results can be found here

The image below shows two views of the RCS0224-002 galaxy cluster. Left: HST/WFPC2 VI--band colour image. Right: Colour image generated from our VIMOS IFU observations.

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The "VIMOS movie" is a movie generated from the datacube. At z=4.88, Ly-alpha(1215) is redshifted to 7148A. The movie plays the datacube between a wavelength range 6080 to 8200 Angstroms (the short version covers 7000-7400).

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