Infrared colors of a complete sample of faint galaxies

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May 1983

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 203, May 1983, p. 685-693. Research supported by the Sc

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galactic Evolution, Galaxies, Infrared Astronomy, Red Shift, Color, Infrared Spectrophotometers, Star Formation Rate

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The infrared color-redshift relation for galaxies of known redshift is reexamined. The relation defined by measurements of optically selected galaxies lies fairly close to that expected from model predictions. Infrared colors may therefore offer a reasonable method for separating the effects of luminosity evolution and redshift when discussing optically selected samples of faint field galaxies. This method is applied to a complete sample of 47 field galaxies at optical magnitude 21.5. The infrared and optical data imply that a third of the field galaxies lie at redshifts beyond those expected from nonevolution models. The optical-to-infrared colors of these distant galaxies are generally bluer and the entire sample is consistent with a more vigorous star formation rate beyond a redshift of about 0.5.

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