Evidence of a fast evolution of the UV luminosity function beyond redshift 6 from a deep HAWK-I survey of the GOODS-S field

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 511, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Castellano, M ^a   Fontana, A ^a   Boutsia, K ^a   Grazian, A ^a   Pentericci, L ^a   Bouwens, R ^b   Dickinson, M ^c   Giavalisco, M ^d   Santini, P ^a   Cristiani, S ^e   Fiore, F ^a   Gallozzi, S ^a   Giallongo, E ^a   Maiolino, R ^a   Mannucci, F ^f   Menci, N ^a   Moorwood, A ^g   Nonino, M ^e   Paris, D ^a   Renzini, A ^h   Rosati, P ^g   Salimbeni, S ^d   Testa, V ^a   Vanzella, E ^e   more..

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^b University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^f INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^g EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^h INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: high redshift; Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMOLOGY; LUMINANCE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SURVEYS;

CONFIDENCE LEVELS; GALAXIES: DISTANCES AND REDSHIFTS; GALAXIES: EVOLUTIONS; HIGH QUALITY; LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS; LUMINOUS GALAXIES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NEAR-IR; NUMBER DENSITY; PUBLIC DATA; RED SHIFT; REDSHIFT RANGE; SELECTION CRITERIA; SURFACE DENSITY;

GALAXIES;

EID: 77950439241     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913300     Document Type: Article

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