Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-07-22
Astrophys.J.633:1126-1141,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
ApJ accepted, 39 pages, 13 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/491576
We explore the nature of the faint blue objects in the Hubble Deep Field South. We have derived proper motions for the point sources in the Hubble Deep Field South using a 3 year baseline. Combining our proper motion measurements with spectral energy distribution fitting enabled us to identify 4 quasars and 42 stars, including 3 white dwarf candidates. Two of these white dwarf candidates, HDFS 1444 and 895, are found to display significant proper motion, 21.1 $\pm$ 7.9 mas/yr and 34.9 $\pm$ 8.0 mas/yr, and are consistent with being thick disk or halo white dwarfs located at ~2 kpc. The other faint blue objects analyzed by Mendez & Minniti do not show any significant proper motion and are inconsistent with being halo white dwarfs; they do not contribute to the Galactic dark matter. The observed population of stars and white dwarfs is consistent with standard Galactic models.
Hippel Ted von
Kilic Mukremin
Mendez Rafael A.
Winget Don E.
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