Dwarfmology

Authors :: Driver, Simon P.
Fernandez-Soto, Alberto
Publication Year :: 1998
Publisher :: arXiv, 1998.
Abstract: We address two important cosmological questions relating to dwarf galaxies: (1) What is their contribution to the field galaxy baryon budget; and (2) what is their contribution to the faint blue galaxy problem. Both of these are addressed empirically from a complete photometric redshift catalogue derived from the Hubble Deep Field. The answer to the first question is: very little (<br />To be published in proceedings of the XVIIIth Moriond meeting on "Dwarf Galaxies and Cosmology", Eds Thuan et al, Publ: Editions Frontiers