Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: I. Detection, Multiband Photometry, Photometric Redshifts, and Morphology

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2006-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605262v1

Astron.J.132:926-959,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted by AJ. 82 pages, 35 figures, 10 tables. At http://adcam.pha.jhu.edu/~coe/UDF/ you can find: full-resolution versions

Scientific paper

10.1086/505530

We present aperture-matched PSF-corrected BVi'z'JH photometry and Bayesian photometric redshifts (BPZ) for objects detected in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF), 8,042 of which are detected at the 10-sigma level (e.g., i'<29.01 or z'<28.43). Most of our objects are defined identically to those in the public STScI catalogs, enabling straightforward object-by-object comparison. We have combined detections from i', z', J+H, and B+V+i'+z' images into a single comprehensive segmentation map. Using a new program called SExSeg we are able to force this segmentation map into SExtractor for photometric analysis. The resulting photometry is corrected for the wider NIC3 PSFs using our ColorPro software. We also correct for the ACS z'-band PSF halo. The NIC3 magnitudes are found to be too faint relative to the ACS fluxes. Based on BPZ SED fits to objects of know spectroscopic redshift, we derived corrections of -0.30 +/- 0.03 mag in J and -0.18 +/- 0.04 mag in H. The offsets appear to be supported by a recent recalibration of the UDF NIC3 images combined with non-linearity measured in NICMOS itself. The UDF reveals a large population of faint blue galaxies (presumably young starbursts), bluer than those observed in the original Hubble Deep Fields (HDF). To accommodate these galaxies, we have added two new starburst templates to the SED library used in previous BPZ papers. The resulting photometric redshifts are accurate to within 0.04 * 1+z_spec out to z < 6. Finally, we measure galaxy morphology, including Sersic index and asymmetry. Our full catalog, software packages, and more are available at http://adcam.pha.jhu.edu/~coe/UDF/ (abridged)

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