Cloning Dropouts : Implications for Galaxy Evolution at High Redshift
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The evolution of high redshift galaxies in the two Hubble Deep Fields, HDF-N and HDF-S, is investigated using a cloning technique that replicates z ∼ 2 − 3 U dropouts to higher redshifts, allowing a comparison with the observed B and V dropouts at higher redshifts (z ∼ 4 − 5). We treat each galaxy selected for replication as a set of pixels that are k-corrected to higher redshift, accounting for resampling, shot-noise, surface-brightness dimming, and the cosmological model. We find evidence for size evolution (a 1.7× increase) from z ∼ 5 to z ∼ 2.7 for flat geometries (ΩM + ΩΛ = 1.0). Simple scaling laws for this cosmology predict that size evolution goes as (1 + z), consistent with our result. The UV luminosity density shows a similar increase (1.85×) from z ∼ 5 to z ∼ 2.7, with minimal evolution in the distribution of intrinsic colors for the dropout population. In general, these results indicate less evolution than was previously reported, and therefore a higher luminosity density at z ∼ 4− 5 (∼ 50% higher) than other estimates. We argue the present technique is the preferred way to understand evolution across samples with differing selection functions, the most relevant differences here being the color cuts and surface brightness thresholds (e.g., due to the (1 + z) cosmic surface brightness dimming effect). Subject headings: galaxies: evolution — galaxies: scale-lengths Astronomy Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2003