Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-10-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in the Astronomical Journal, November 1996. 23 pages, including 2 tables and 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/118141
A narrowband imaging survey of 276 square minutes of arc was carried out at near infrared wavelengths to search for emission line objects at high redshifts. Most of the fields contained a known quasar or radio galaxy at a redshift that placed one of the strong, restframe optical emission lines (H-alpha, [O III], H-beta, or [O II]) in the bandpass of the narrowband filter. The area weighted line flux limit over the entire survey was 3.4x10e-16 erg/cm2/s (3-sigma), while the most sensitive limits reached 1.4x10e-16 erg/cm2/s. Integrating the volume covered by all four optical emission lines in each image yields a total comoving volume surveyed of 1.4x10e5 cubic megaparsecs. Considering only H-alpha emission in the K band (2.05 < z < 2.65), where the survey is most sensitive, the survey covered a comoving volume of 3.0x10e4 cubic megaparsecs to a volume-weighted average star formation rate of 112 M-solar/yr (for Ho = 50 km/s/Mpc, Omega = 1). This is the most extensive near-infrared survey which is deep enough to have a reasonable chance at detecting strong line emission from an actively star-forming population of galaxies, when d against simple models of galaxy formation. One emission line candidate was identified in this survey, and subsequently confirmed spectroscopically.
Beckwith Steven V. W.
Mannucci Filippo
Thompson Dana
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