Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aas...204.6501e&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #65.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.780
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
New techniques are being brought to the fore to address the important question of the star formation history of the Universe prior to redshift 5. I will discuss results based on the counts and Keck spectroscopic follow-up of Lyman dropouts in the GOODS and UDF HST images which, taken together, suggest a marked decline in the comoving density of star formation over the redshift range 3 to 6. Extending these studies to both intrinsically fainter and more distant sources has required the additional magnification offered by well-constrained cluster gravitational lenses. Both blind Lyman alpha emission and continuum searches along the "critical lines" of such lenses have demonstrated the capability of locating distant sources bright enough for detailed study. Together with further exploitation of the UDF, an early glimpse will be provided of the abundance and characteristics of the sources responsible for ending the Dark Ages.
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