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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 370, Issue 1, Pages 331-342Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10484.x
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instrumentation : spectrographs; galaxies : evolution; galaxies : formation; galaxies : high-redshift; infrared : general
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We have conducted an H alpha survey of 38 0.77 <= z <= 1 galaxies over similar to 100 arcmin(2) of the Hubble Deep Field-North and Flanking Fields, to determine star formation rates (SFRs), with the near-IR multi-object spectrograph Cambridge Infrared Panoramic Survey Spectrograph (CIRPASS) on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). This represents the first successful application of this technique to observing high-redshift galaxies. Stacking the spectra in the rest frame to infer a total SFR for the field, we find a lower limit (uncorrected for dust reddening) on the SFR density at redshift z = 1 of 0.04M(circle dot) yr(-1) Mpc(-3). This implies rapid evolution in the SFR density from z = 0 to 1 which is proportional to (1 + z)(3.1).
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