Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-03-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, labelling to the left-hand axis of Figure 4
Scientific paper
We report on the i-dropouts detected in two exceptionally deep ACS fields (B_{435}, V_{606}, i_{775}, and z_{850} with 10 sigma limits of 28.8, 29.0, 28.5, and 27.8, respectively) taken in parallel with the UDF NICMOS observations. Using an i-z>1.4 cut, we find 30 i-dropouts over 21 arcmin^2 down to z_AB=28.1, or 1.4 i-dropouts arcmin^{-2}, with significant field-to-field variation (as expected from cosmic variance). This extends i-dropout searches some ~0.9^m further down the luminosity function than was possible in the GOODS field, netting a ~7x increase in surface density. An estimate of the size evolution for UV bright objects is obtained by comparing the composite radial flux profile of the bright i-dropouts (z<27.2) with scaled versions of the HDF-N + HDF-S U-dropouts. The best-fit is found with a (1+z)^{-1.57_{-0.53} ^{+0.50}} scaling in size (for fixed luminosity), extending lower redshift (1
Blakeslee John P.
Bouwens Rychard J.
Broadhurst Thomas James
Dickinson Mark Everett
Eisenstein Daniel J.
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