Formation and Evolution of Spheroidal Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field.

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Dec 1996

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American Astronomical Society, 189th AAS Meeting, #103.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1413

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We examine the evolution of spheroidal galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) images. The surface brightness profiles of all compact objects are compared with two-dimensional de Vaucouleurs profiles, yielding 32 objects which fit well in the I814 passband. Most of these galaxies (22) form a very tight colour-magnitude sequence extending to very red colours at faint magnitude, consistent with passive evolution to z ~ 1.5. The remainder (10) are much bluer and their location in the colour-magnitude plane indicates they are at high redshift undergoing their initial star-formation episode. The narrow width of the red sequence requires a declining faint-end luminosity function (alpha ~ =-0.3), consistent with lower redshift estimates. Subtraction of the model profiles from the images reveals an AGN, shells and candidate lensed images.

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