Optical dropout galaxies lensed by the cluster A2667

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2011-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/1104.2520v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

18 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

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We investigate the nature and the physical properties of z, Y and J-dropout galaxies selected behind the lensing cluster A2667. This field is part of our project aimed at identifying z~7-10 candidates accessible to spectroscopic studies, based on deep photometry with ESO/VLT HAWK-I and FORS2 (zYJH and Ks-band images, AB(3 sigma)~26-27) on a sample of lensing clusters extracted from our multi-wavelength combined surveys with SPITZER, HST, and Herschel. In this paper we focus on the complete Y and J-dropout sample, as well as the bright z-dropouts fulfilling the selection criteria by Capak et al. (2011). 10 candidates are selected within the common field of ~33 arcmin2 (effective area once corrected for contamination and lensing dilution). All of them are detected in H and Ks bands in addition to J and/or IRAC 3.6/4.5, with H(AB)~23.4 to 25.2, and have modest magnification factors. Although best-fit photometric redshifts place all these candidates at high-z, the contamination by low-z interlopers is estimated at 50-75% level based on previous studies, and the comparison with the blank-field WIRCAM Ultra-Deep Survey (WUDS). The same result is obtained when photometric redshifts include a luminosity prior, allowing us to remove half of the original sample as likely z~1.7-3 interlopers with young stellar pulations and strong extinction. Two additional sources among the remaining sample could be identified at low-z based on a detection at 24 microns and on the HST z_850 band. These low-z interlopers are not well described by current templates given the large break, and cannot be easily identified based solely on optical and near-IR photometry. Given the estimated dust extinction and high SFRs, some of them could be also detected in the IR or sub-mm bands. After correction for likely contaminants, the observed counts at z>7.5 seem to be in agreement with an evolving LF. (abridged)

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