Counts and colours of faint galaxies in the U and R bands

被引：82

作者：

Hogg, DW ^{[1
]}

Pahre, MA ^{[1
]}

McCarthy, JK ^{[1
]}

Cohen, JG ^{[1
]}

Blandford, R ^{[1
]}

Smail, I ^{[1
]}

Soifer, BT ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV DURHAM,DEPT PHYS,DURHAM DH1 3LE,ENGLAND

来源：

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | 1997年 / 288卷 / 02期

关键词：

galaxies; fundamental parameters; photometry; cosmology; observations; ultraviolet;

D O I：

10.1093/mnras/288.2.404

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

Ground-based counts and colours of faint galaxies in the U and R bands in one field at high Galactic latitude are presented. Integrated over flux, a total of 1.2 x 10(-5) source deg(-2) are found to U=25.5 mag and 6.3 x 10(5) source deg(-2) to R = 27 mag, with d logN/dm similar to 0.5 in the U band and d logN/dm similar to 0.3 in the R band. Consistent with these number-magnitude curves, sources become bluer with increasing magnitude to median U-R =0.6 mag at 24 < U < 25 mag and U-R = 1.2 mag at 25 < R < 26 mag. Because the Lyman break redshifts into the U band at z approximate to 3 at least 1.2 x 10(5) source deg(-2) must be at redshifts z < 3. Measurable U-band fluxes of 73 per cent of the 6.3 x 10(5) source deg(-2) suggest that the majority of these also lie at z < 3. These results require an enormous space density of objects in any cosmological model.

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页码：404 / 410

页数：7

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