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A Glimpse of Field Galaxies at Redshifts z ∼ 1 using HST and the Keck Telescope
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
Data from the Keck and Hubble Space Telescopes have been combined to explore the nature of very faint I > 22 field galaxies. At a redshift z ∼ 1, such galaxies have luminosities similar to that of typical galaxies today. Though small, our sample of 33 redshifts already suggest that the median redshift for I > 22 galaxies is higher than the z = 0.6 expected for the “maximum merger model” of Carlberg (1995). At redshifts z > 0.8, mergers, interactions, and infall of minor galaxies into larger hosts appear to be common events; a wide diversity of morphological types existed; and some stellar populations were already so red that their major formation epoch occurred at redshifts z > 2.
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- High Redshift Galaxies
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 171: New Light on Galaxy Evolution , 1996 , pp. 217 - 220
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1996