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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 862, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aacdad
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cosmology: observations; dark matter; galaxies: abundances; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: high-redshift; gravitational lensing: strong
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- Visiting Research Professors Scheme at the University of Hong Kong
- University of Hong Kong
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong [17319316]
- MINECO/FEDER, UE [AYA2015-64508-P]
- National Science Foundation and Space Telescope Science Institute
- NASA [NAS5-26555]
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Acting as powerful gravitational lenses, the strong lensing galaxy clusters of the deep Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) program permit access to lower-luminosity galaxies lying at higher redshifts than hitherto possible. We analyzed the HFF to measure the volume density of Lyman-break galaxies at z > 4.75 by identifying a complete and reliable sample up to z similar or equal to 10. A marked deficit of such galaxies was uncovered in the highly magnified regions of the clusters relative to their outskirts, implying that the magnification of the sky area dominates over additional faint galaxies magnified above the flux limit. This negative magnification bias is consistent with a slow rollover at the faint end of the UV luminosity function and it indicates a preference for Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter with a light boson mass of m(B)similar or equal to 10(-22) eV over standard cold dark matter. We emphasize that measuring the magnification bias requires no correction for multiply-lensed images (with typically three or more images per source), whereas directly reconstructing the luminosity function will lead to an overestimate unless such images can be exhaustively matched up, especially at the faint end that is only accessible in the strongly lensed regions. In addition, we detected a distinctive downward transition in galaxy number density at z greater than or similar to 8, which may be linked to the relatively late reionization reported by Planck. Our results suggests that JWST will likely peer into an abyss with essentially no galaxies detected in deep NIR imaging at z > 10.
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