Photometric Redshifts and Morphologies of Galaxies in the NICMOS Parallel Fields

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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36 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal

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10.1086/301262

We present positions, magnitudes, sizes and morphological classifications for 111 galaxies discovered in the Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS Camera 1 and Camera 2 parallel fields. We combine the magnitudes measured in the JHK-analog filters with those from deep ground-based images in V and/or R to measure photometric redshifts for 71 objects using Bruzual-Charlot population synthesis models. We find that these objects fall in the range z ~ 0.0 - 2.7, with a mean redshift of 0.8 and a mean luminosity of 1.6 L*. The NICMOS images reveal many of the objects to be ordered spirals and ellipticals similar to those in the local universe. However, we find a higher fraction (~ 14%) of morphologically peculiar and/or interacting galaxies than is observed among local galaxies (~ 3% - 4%). This is consistent with the results from other deep HST images including the Hubble Deep Field and Hubble Medium Deep Survey Field that the fraction of peculiar and interacting galaxies increases with redshift. As the NICMOS images of the sample galaxies cover their rest-frame near infrared and optical emission, this result increases confidence that such changes in morphology are genuine, as opposed to an effect produced by viewing galaxies in the rest-frame ultraviolet. We also find that at least 26 of the sample galaxies appear to be members of (non-interacting) pairs or groups, based on their proximity to one another and photometric redshifts. This is consistent with the results of recent ground-based optical surveys covering larger areas, and with the detection of galaxy groups and filaments at redshifts higher than those covered by our sample.

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