Lennox L. Cowie and Esther M. Hu 1998 The Astronomical Journal 115 1319 doi:10.1086/300309
High-z Lyα Emitters. I. A Blank-Field Search for Objects near Redshift z = 3.4 in and around the Hubble Deep Field and the Hawaii Deep Field SSA 22*
FREE ISSUELennox L. Cowie1,2,3 and Esther M. Hu1,2
Show affiliations We present deep narrowband (λ = 5390 Å, Δλ = 77 Å) and multicolor observations of the Hubble Deep Field and the Hawaii Deep Field SSA 22 obtained with the LRIS instrument at the 10 m Keck II Telescope. It is shown that there is a substantial population of galaxies at z ~ 3.4 that can be selected by Lyα emission. Comparison with color-selected samples shows that the samples selected with these different criteria have substantial, but not complete, overlap and that there is a comparable surface density in the two selected populations. The emission-line–selected samples include objects with strong Lyα, and which are significant contributers to the integrated star formation at these epochs. For a Salpeter initial mass function, we estimate a minimum star formation rate of 0.01 M
Mpc-3 yr-1 at z = 3.4 for H0 = 65 km s-1 Mpc-1 and q0 = 0.5 in the Lyα-selected objects, though the value could be substantially higher if there is significant extinction.
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- Keywords
cosmology: observations; early universe; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation
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Issue 4 (1998 April)
Received 1997 November 18, accepted for publication 1998 January 6
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High-z Lyα Emitters. I. A Blank-Field Search for Objects near Redshift z = 3.4 in and around the Hubble Deep Field and the Hawaii Deep Field SSA 22
Lennox L. Cowie and Esther M. Hu 1998 The Astronomical Journal 115 1319
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