Friday 23 April 2010

An x-ray detected cluster at z=1.62

Tanaka et al. have independently identified the cluster at z=1.62 that I blogged about recently, and have confirmed the redshift using NIR spectroscopy.  They have also detected it in the x-ray, thereby upgrading its status from "protocluster" to "cluster" (according to the common usage of those terms), and making it the most distant cluster known.


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