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哈勃超深场的Deep Keck u波段成像:z~3 Lyman Break Galerkin星表

Deep Keck u-band imaging of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: A catalog of z~3 Lyman Break Galaxies

Marc Rafelski, Arthur M. Wolfe, Jeff Cooke, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Taft E. Armandroff, Gregory D. Wirth

摘要:

我们在哈勃超深场观测了407个z~3 Lyman break星系(LBG),它们在U波段的极限等照度为27.6等。LBG是使用测光红移和U波段脱落技术的组合来选择的,该技术通过引入用凯克I望远镜和LRIS光谱仪的蓝色通道获得的极深的U波段图像来实现。凯克的u波段图像总共用了9个小时的积分时间,其1 sigma深度为30.7 mag arcsec^-2,是迄今为止获得的最灵敏的u波段图像之一。u波段图像还大大提高了对约50%的z~3 Lyman break星系的光度红移测量的准确性,显着降低了z~3和z~0.2星系之间的传统颜色简并度。该样品为研究高红移下星系形成和演化以及气体的恒星形成效率提供了最灵敏、最高分辨率的z~3长周期星系的多滤波成像。

英文摘要:

We present a sample of 407 z~3 Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) to a limiting isophotal u-band magnitude of 27.6 mag in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF). The LBGs are selected using a combination of photometric redshifts and the u-band drop-out technique enabled by the introduction of an extremely deep u-band image obtained with the Keck I telescope and the blue channel of the LRIS spectrometer. The Keck u-band image, totaling 9 hours of integration time, has a one sigma depth of 30.7 mag arcsec^-2, making it one of the most sensitive u-band images ever obtained. The u-band image also substantially improves the accuracy of photometric redshift measurements of ~50% of the z~3 Lyman break galaxies, significantly reducing the traditional degeneracy of colors between z~3 and z~0.2 galaxies. This sample provides the most sensitive, high-resolution multi-filter imaging of reliably identified z~3 LBGs for morphological studies of galaxy formation and evolution and the star formation efficiency of gas at high redshift.

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