Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-08-19
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, LaTeX type (aaspp4.sty), 3 Postscript figures, submitted to ApJ Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/310329
A constant age population of blue galaxies, postulated in the model of Gronwall & Koo (1995), seems to provide an attractive explanation of the excess of very blue galaxies in the deep galaxy counts. Such a population may be generated by a set of galaxies with cycling star formation rates, or at the other extreme, be maintained by the continual formation of new galaxies which fade after they reach the age specified in the Gronwall and Koo model. For both of these hypotheses, we have calculated the luminosity functions including the respective selection criteria, the redshift distributions, and the number counts in the B_J and K bands. We find a substantial excess in the number of galaxies at low redshift (0 < z < 0.05) over that observed in the CFH redshift survey (Lilly et al. 1995) and at the faint end of the Las Campanas luminosity function (Lin et al. 1996). Passive or mild evolution fails to account for the deep galaxy counts because of the implications for low redshift determinations of the I-selected redshift distribution and the r-selected luminosity function in samples where the faded counterparts of the star-forming galaxies would be detectable.
Bouwens Rychard J.
Silk Joseph
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