Constraining the Low-mass End of the Stellar Mass Function at z=2-4

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Jul 2009

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HST Proposal ID #12141. Cycle 18

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One of the major goals of observational cosmology is to understand the physical processes responsible for shaping the galaxies into their present forms. The stellar mass function {SMF} of galaxies is one of the most fundamental of all cosmological observables. As the redshift range z=2-4 represents a key epoch in the buildup and evolution of galaxies, probes of the SMF at these redshifts provide important constraints on the processes at work in galaxy formation and evolution. While currently there are strong constraints on the high-mass end of the SMF in this epoch, the low-mass end is less well-known. Here we propose to use the HST archival data to robustly measure the low-mass end of the SMFs at 2

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