Keck Spectroscopy and NICMOS Photometry of a Redshift z=5.60 Galaxy

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1998-07-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807208v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted version--ApJ Letters, predicted high-z colors refined, improved references to earlier photometric redshift estimates,

Scientific paper

10.1086/311625

We present Keck LRIS spectroscopy along with NICMOS F110W (~J) and F160W (~H) images of the galaxy HDF4-473.0 (hereafter 4-473) in the Hubble Deep Field, with a detection of an emission line consistent with Ly-alpha at a redshift of z=5.60. Attention to this object as a high redshift galaxy was first drawn by Lanzetta, Yahil and Fernandez-Soto and appeared in their initial list of galaxies with redshifts estimated from the WFPC2 HDF photometry. It was selected by us for spectroscopic observation, along with others in the Hubble Deep Field, on the basis of the NICMOS F110W and F160W and WFPC2 photometry. For H_0 = 65 and q_0 = 0.125, use of simple evolutionary models along with the F814W (~I), F110W, and F160W magnitudes allow us to estimate the star formation rate (~13 M(solar)/yr). The colors suggest a reddening of E(B-V) ~ 0.06. The measured flux in the Ly-alpha line is approximately 1.0*10^(-17) ergs/cm/s and the restframe equivalent width, correcting for the absorption caused by intervening HI, is approximately 90AA. The galaxy is compact and regular, but resolved, with an observed FWHM of ~0.44". Simple evolutionary models can accurately reproduce the colors and these models predict the Ly-alpha flux to within a factor of 2. Using this object as a template shifted to higher redshifts, we calculate the magnitudes through the F814W and two NICMOS passbands for galaxies at redshifts 6 < z < 10.

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