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Expanded Search for z ∼ 10 Galaxies from HUDF09, ERS, and CANDELS Data: Evidence for Accelerated Evolution at z > 8?

  • Authors: P. A. Oesch, R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, I. Labbé, M. Trenti, V. Gonzalez, C. M. Carollo, M. Franx, P. G. van Dokkum, and D. Magee

Oesch et al. 2012 The Astrophysical Journal 745 110.

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Surface density of contaminating sources at redshifts z ~ 2–4. The surface densities are extremely low. Only ~0.4 sources are expected per WFC3/IR pointing. The rapid disappearance of such sources beyond H 160, AB gsim 26, almost 1 mag brighter than the detection limits of our shallow fields from ERS and CANDELS, suggests that such sources may have a peaked LF at the wavelengths of interest in these surveys and so could be less of a problem for contamination for fainter z ~ 10 galaxy samples.

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