Segregated Optical-NIR colour distributions of MDS galaxies

Details Segregated Optical-NIR colour distributions of MDS galaxies Segregated Optical-NIR colour distributions of MDS galaxies

1998-10-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9810219v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LaTeX file, uses mn.sty. Submitted to MNRAS, revised version after referee's report. 7 pages with 8 EPS figures

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02308.x

We present a K survey of 29 fields covering approximately 90 arcmin^2 from the Medium Deep Survey (MDS) catalogue down to a completeness magnitude of K=18.0 (limiting magnitude K=19.0). The morphology obtained by the MDS team using high resolution images from HST/WFPC2 along with our NIR observations allow a Colour-Magnitude and Colour-Colour analysis that agrees in general with spectral evolution models (Bruzual & Charlot 1998) especially if a reasonable range of metallicities for the Simple Stellar Populations used (0.2 < Z/Zsolar < 2.5) is considered. However, a significant population of spheroids was found, which appear bluer than expected, confirming previous observations (Forbes et al. 1996, Koo et al. 1996, Glazebrook et al. 1998). This blueness might possibly signal the existence of non-negligible star formation in ellipticals and bulges at medium redshift. A number counts calculation for different morphological types show disks become the dominant population at faint magnitudes. The median redshift of the sample is z~0.2, from a photometric redshift estimation using V-K and I-K. A search for EROs in the survey field was also performed, with no detection of objects having I-K > 4.5, setting an upper limit to the number density of EROs at dn_{EROs}/d\Omega < 0.011 arcmin^{-2} (K < 18.0).

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