The Bigfoot: A footprint of a Coma cluster progenitor at z=3.98
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| author | Sun, Hanwen Wang, Tao Daddi, Emanuele Hao, Qiaoyang Xu, Ke Elbaz, David Zhou, Luwenjia Mo, Houjun Wang, Huiyuan Chen, Longyue Chen, Yangyao Jin, Shuowen Lyu, Yipeng Sillassen, Nikolaj Wang, Kai Yang, Tiancheng |
| author_facet | Sun, Hanwen Wang, Tao Daddi, Emanuele Hao, Qiaoyang Xu, Ke Elbaz, David Zhou, Luwenjia Mo, Houjun Wang, Huiyuan Chen, Longyue Chen, Yangyao Jin, Shuowen Lyu, Yipeng Sillassen, Nikolaj Wang, Kai Yang, Tiancheng |
| contents | Protoclusters, galaxy clusters' high redshift progenitors, hold the keys to understanding the formation and evolution of clusters and their member galaxies. However, their cosmological distances and spatial extensions (tens of Mpc) have inhibited complete mapping of their structure and constituent galaxies, which is key to robustly linking protoclusters to their descendants. Here we report the discovery of the Bigfoot, a tridimensional structure at $z = 3.98$ including 11 subgroups traced by 55 (700) spectroscopic (photometric) redshifts with JWST, extending over $15\times 37$ $\times 49{\rm{cMpc^3}}$ in the PRIMER-UDS field. Bigfoot's large-scale and mass function of member galaxies closely match constrained simulations' predictions for the progenitors of today's most massive clusters (${M_0} > 10^{15} {M_{_ \odot }}$). All subgroups with ${M_{\rm{h}}} > {10^{12.5}}{M_{_ \odot }}$ exhibit enhanced fractions of massive galaxies ($>{10^{10.0} {M_{_ \odot }}}$) compared to lower-mass halos and the field, demonstrating the accelerated formation of massive galaxies in massive halos. The presence of this massive protocluster with a large central halo (${10^{13.0} {M_{_ \odot }}}$) in a JWST deep field bears important cosmological implication that favors high ${σ_8}$ of PLANCK cosmology over low-redshift probes. |
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| spellingShingle | The Bigfoot: A footprint of a Coma cluster progenitor at z=3.98 Sun, Hanwen Wang, Tao Daddi, Emanuele Hao, Qiaoyang Xu, Ke Elbaz, David Zhou, Luwenjia Mo, Houjun Wang, Huiyuan Chen, Longyue Chen, Yangyao Jin, Shuowen Lyu, Yipeng Sillassen, Nikolaj Wang, Kai Yang, Tiancheng Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Protoclusters, galaxy clusters' high redshift progenitors, hold the keys to understanding the formation and evolution of clusters and their member galaxies. However, their cosmological distances and spatial extensions (tens of Mpc) have inhibited complete mapping of their structure and constituent galaxies, which is key to robustly linking protoclusters to their descendants. Here we report the discovery of the Bigfoot, a tridimensional structure at $z = 3.98$ including 11 subgroups traced by 55 (700) spectroscopic (photometric) redshifts with JWST, extending over $15\times 37$ $\times 49{\rm{cMpc^3}}$ in the PRIMER-UDS field. Bigfoot's large-scale and mass function of member galaxies closely match constrained simulations' predictions for the progenitors of today's most massive clusters (${M_0} > 10^{15} {M_{_ \odot }}$). All subgroups with ${M_{\rm{h}}} > {10^{12.5}}{M_{_ \odot }}$ exhibit enhanced fractions of massive galaxies ($>{10^{10.0} {M_{_ \odot }}}$) compared to lower-mass halos and the field, demonstrating the accelerated formation of massive galaxies in massive halos. The presence of this massive protocluster with a large central halo (${10^{13.0} {M_{_ \odot }}}$) in a JWST deep field bears important cosmological implication that favors high ${σ_8}$ of PLANCK cosmology over low-redshift probes. |
| title | The Bigfoot: A footprint of a Coma cluster progenitor at z=3.98 |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21356 |