Luminous and High Stellar Mass Candidate Galaxies at z~8 Discovered in CANDELS

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2011-12-29

arxiv.org/abs/1112.6406v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

submitted to ApJL

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One key goal of the Hubble Space Telescope Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey is to track galaxy evolution back to z ~ 8. Its two-tiered "wide and deep" strategy bridges significant gaps in existing near-infrared surveys. In this Letter we report on eight z ~ 8 galaxy candidates selected as F105W-band dropouts in one of its deep fields, which covers ~ 62.9 sq.arcmin to 4 ks per filter depth in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey southern field. Three of our candidates have J<26.2 mag, and are at least ~ 1 mag brighter than any previously known F105W-dropouts. We derive constraints on the bright-end of the rest-frame ultraviolet luminosity function of galaxies at z ~ 8, and show that the number density of such very bright objects is higher than expected from the previous Schechter luminosity function estimates at this redshift. Two of our candidates, one of which is among the top three brightest, are securely detected in Spitzer Infrared Array Camera images, which are the first such detections at z ~ 8. Their derived stellar masses are on the order of 10^{9.3-10.2} Msun, from which we obtain the first measurement of the high-mass end of the galaxy stellar mass function at z ~ 8. The high number density of very luminous and very massive galaxies at z ~ 8, if real, could imply a large stellar-to-halo mass ratio and an efficient conversion of baryons to stars at such an early time.

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