Classification of Extremely Red Objects in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Details Classification of Extremely Red Objects in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Classification of Extremely Red Objects in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field

2009-02-16

arxiv.org/abs/0902.2630v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

14 pages, 9 figures, accepted by Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA), Vol 9, No 1 (2009)

Scientific paper

10.1088/1674-4527/9/1/005

In this paper we present a quantitative study of the classification of Extremely Red Objects (EROs). The analysis is based on the multi-band spatial- and ground-based observations (HST/ACS-$BViz$, HST/NICMOS-$JH$, VLT-$JHK$) in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF). Over a total sky area of 5.50 arcmin$^2$ in the UDF, we select 24 EROs with the color criterion $(i-K)_{\rm Vega}>3.9$, corresponding to $(I-K)_{\rm Vega}\gsim4.0$, down to $\Kv=22$. We develop four methods to classify EROs into Old passively evolving Galaxies (OGs) and Dusty star-forming Galaxies (DGs), including $(i-K)$ vs. $(J-K)$ color diagram, spectral energy distribution fitting method, Spitzer MIPS 24 $\mu$m image matching, and nonparametric measure of galaxy morphology, and found that the classification results from these methods agree well. Using these four classification methods, we classify our EROs sample into 6 OGs and 8 DGs to $\Kv<20.5$, and 8 OGs and 16 DGs to $\Kv<22$, respectively. The fraction of DGs increases from 8/14 at $\Kv<20.5$ to 16/24 at $\Kv<22$. To study the morphology of galaxies with its wavelength, we measure the central concentration and the Gini coefficient for the 24 EROs in our sample in HST/ACS-$i,z$ and HST/NICMOS-$J,H$ bands. We find that the morphological parameters of galaxies in our sample depend on the wavelength of observation, which suggests that caution is necessary when comparing single wavelength band images of galaxies at a variety of redshifts.

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