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The properties of Lyman break galaxies at.
- Source :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 1/1/2004, Vol. 347 Issue 1, pL7-L12, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- In a recent paper, Lehnert & Bremer have photometrically selected a sample of Lyman break galaxies at from a single VLT/FORS2 pointing and spectroscopically confirmed half of them to be at . To study the properties of such galaxies further, we have photometrically selected a similar sample from the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys ( HST ACS) images of the Chandra Deep Field-South. This selection results in a sample of 44 sources from . We find that such galaxies are often barely resolved in the ACS images, having half-light radii of 0.1–0.3 arcsec (<2 kpc). They show no difference in spatial clustering from sources selected by , which are generally galaxies of lower redshift. However, their distribution over the field is not uniform and their surface density varies considerably over areas comparable to a single 8-m or HST pointing. A reliable determination of the surface and volume densities of such galaxies requires a sky area considerably larger than the current ACS imaging of this field. No individual Lyman break candidate was detected to a 3σ limit of at 0.5–5 keV by Chandra (a limiting luminosity of below at ). By summing over all positions, we find that the mean source must be undetected at a level at least a factor of 4 times fainter than this. This rules out anything other than a weak active galactic nucleus (AGN) contribution to the emission from these objects; we conclude that luminous AGNs made little contribution to the final stages of re-ionization of the Universe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- GALAXIES
ASTRONOMICAL photometry
HYDROGEN
NEUTRAL beams
REDSHIFT
SPACE environment
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00358711
- Volume :
- 347
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 11691875
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07352.x