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Caption: Figure 11.
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
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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