A Keck Survey for Gravitationally-Lensed Lyman-alpha Emitters in the Redshift Range 8.5
@inproceedings{Stark2007AKS, title={A Keck Survey for Gravitationally-Lensed Lyman-alpha Emitters in the Redshift Range 8.5}, author={D. P. Stark and Richard S. Ellis and Johan Richard and Jean-Paul Kneib and Graham P. Smith and Michael R. Santos}, year={2007} }
We discuss new observational constraints on the abundance of faint high redshift Lyman-alpha emitters secured from a deep Keck near-infrared spectroscopic survey which utilizes the strong magnification provided by lensing galaxy clusters at intermediate redshift (z=0.2-0.5). In each of 9 clusters we have undertaken a systematic `blind' search for line emission with NIRSPEC in the J-band within carefully-selected regions which offer very high magnifications (>10-50x) for background sources with…
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