Journal article
UV luminosity functions at redshifts z ∼ 4 to z ∼ 10: 10,000 galaxies from HST legacy fields
RJ Bouwens, GD Illingworth, PA Oesch, M Trenti, I Labbé, L Bradley, M Carollo, PG Van Dokkum, V Gonzalez, B Holwerda, M Franx, L Spitler, R Smit, D Magee
Astrophysical Journal | Published : 2015
Abstract
The remarkable Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data sets from the CANDELS, HUDF09, HUDF12, ERS, and BoRG/HIPPIES programs have allowed us to map the evolution of the rest-frame UV luminosity function (LF) from z ∼ 10 to z ∼ 4. We develop new color criteria that more optimally utilize the full wavelength coverage from the optical, near-IR, and mid-IR observations over our search fields, while simultaneously minimizing the incompleteness and eliminating redshift gaps. We have identified 5859, 3001, 857, 481, 217, and 6 galaxy candidates at z ∼ 4, z ∼ 5, z ∼ 6, z ∼ 7, z ∼ 8, and z ∼ 10, respectively, from the ∼1000 arcmin2 area covered by these data sets. This sample of >10,000 galaxy candidates a..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Peter Capak, Mark Dickinson, Jim Dunlop, Richard Ellis, Steve Finkelstein, Kristian Finlator, Jason Jaacks, Ross McLure, Ken Nagamine, Masami Ouchi, Rogier Windhorst, and Haojing Yan for valuable conversations. Feedback from our referee substantially improved this paper. We acknowledge the support of NASA grant NAG5-7697, NASA grant HST-GO-11563, ERC grant HIGHZ #227749, and a NWO vrij competitie grant 600.065.140.11N211. This research has benefitted from the SpeX Prism Spectral Libraries, maintained by Adam Burgasser at http://pono.ucsd.edu/similar to adam/browndwarfs/spexprism.