The colour selection of distant galaxies in the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey Early Data Release

Details The colour selection of distant galaxies in the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey Early Data Release The colour selection of distant galaxies in the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey Early Data Release

2007-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/0704.2136v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett.379:L25-L29,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters. 5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Higher-resolution figures available from the authors o

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00327.x

We investigate colour selection techniques for high redshift galaxies in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey Early Data Release (UDS EDR). Combined with very deep Subaru optical photometry, the depth (K_AB = 22.5) and area (0.62 deg^2) of the UDS EDR allows us to investigate optical/near-IR selection using a large sample of over 30,000 objects. By using the B-z, z-K colour-colour diagram (the BzK technique) we identify over 7500 candidate galaxies at z > 1.4, which can be further separated into passive and starforming systems (pBzK and sBzK respectively). Our unique sample allows us to identify a new feature not previously seen in BzK diagrams, consistent with the passively evolving track of early type galaxies at z < 1.4. We also compare the BzK technique with the R-K colour selection of Extremely Red Objects (EROs) and the J-K selection of Distant Red Galaxies (DRGs), and quantify the overlap between these populations. We find that the majority of DRGs, at these relatively bright magnitudes are also EROs. Since previous studies have found that DRGs at these magnitudes have redshifts of z ~ 1 we determine that these DRG/ERO galaxies have SEDs consistent with being dusty star-forming galaxies or AGN at z < 2. Finally we observe a flattening in the number counts of pBzK galaxies, similar to other studies, which may indicate that we are sampling the luminosity function of passive z > 1 galaxies over a narrow redshift range.

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