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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 359, 期 3, 页码 1184-1192出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08977.x
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galaxies : evolution; galaxies : formation; galaxies : high-redshift; galaxies : starburst
We analyse near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer F110W (J) and F160W (H) band photometry of a sample of 27 i'-drop candidate z similar or equal to 6 galaxies in the central region of the HST/Advanced Camera for Surveys Ultra Deep Field. The infrared colours of the 20 objects not affected by near neighbours are consistent with a high-redshift interpretation. This suggests that the low-redshift contamination of this i'-drop sample is smaller than that observed at brighter magnitudes, where values of 10-40 per cent have been reported. The J-H colours are consistent with a slope flat in f(nu)(f(lambda)proportional to lambda(-2)), as would be expected for an unreddened starburst. However, there is evidence for a marginally bluer spectral slope (f(lambda)proportional to lambda(-2.2)), which is perhaps indicative of an extremely young starburst (similar to 10 Myr old) or a top heavy initial mass function and little dust. The low levels of contamination, median photometric redshift of z similar to 6.0 and blue spectral slope, inferred using the near-infrared data, support the validity of the assumptions in our earlier work in estimating the star formation rates, and that the majority of the i-drop candidates galaxies lie at z similar to 6.
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