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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 891, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7659
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Observational cosmology; High-redshift galaxies; Galaxy evolution; Reionization; Random Forests
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- NASA Astrophysics and Data Analysis Program [NNX16AN47G]
- John W. Cox Endowment for the Advanced Studies in Astronomy
- FRI Summer Research Fund from UT College of Natural Sciences
- UT Office of Undergraduate Research
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Looking for bright galaxies born in the early universe is fundamental to investigating the Epoch of Reionization, the era when the first stars and galaxies ionized the intergalactic medium. We utilize Hubble Space Telescope pure-parallel imaging to select galaxy candidates at a time 500-650 million years after the Big Bang, which corresponds to redshifts z similar to 8-10. These data come from the Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies Survey (BoRG) Cycle 22 data set, which consists of pure-parallel imaging in similar to 90 different lines of sight that sum up to an area of similar to 420 arcmin(2). This survey uses five filters and has the advantage (compared to the Cycle 21 BoRG program) of including imaging in the JH(140) band, covering continuous wavelengths from the visible to near-infrared (lambda = 0.35-1.7 mu m). This allows us to perform a reliable selection of galaxies at z >= 8 using the photometric-redshift technique. We use these galaxy candidates to constrain the bright end of the rest-frame ultraviolet luminosity function in this epoch. These candidates are excellent targets for follow-up observations, particularly with the James Webb Space Telescope.
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