Evolution of Lyman Break Galaxies Beyond Redshift Four

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2000-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0002425v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

in press, ApJ Letters, 15 latex pages plus 1 fig

Scientific paper

10.1086/312587

The formation rate of luminous galaxies seems to be roughly constant from z~2 to z~4 from the recent observations of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) (Steidel et al 1999). The abundance of luminous quasars, on the other hand, appears to drop off by a factor of more than twenty from z~2 to z~5 (Warren, Hewett, & Osmer 1994; Schmidt, Schneider, & Gunn 1995). The difference in evolution between these two classes of objects in the overlapping, observed redshift range, z=2-4, can be explained naturally, if we assume that quasar activity is triggered by mergers of luminous LBGs and one quasar lifetime is ~10^{7-8} yrs. If this merger scenario holds at higher redshift, for the evolutions of these two classes of objects to be consistent at z>4, the formation rate of luminous LBGs is expected to drop off at least as rapidly as exp(-(z-4)^{6/5}) at z>4.

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