Multicolor observations of the Hubble Deep Field South

Details Multicolor observations of the Hubble Deep Field South Multicolor observations of the Hubble Deep Field South

2001-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107506v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

36 pages Latex, with 12 PostScript figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/323544

We present a deep multicolor (UBVIJsHKs) catalog of galaxies in the HDF-S, based on observations obtained with the HST WFPC2 in 1998 and VLT-ISAAC in 1999. The photometric procedures were tuned to derive a catalog optimized for the estimation of photometric redshifts. In particular we adopted a ``conservative'' detection threshold which resulted in a list of 1611 objects. The behavior of the observed source counts is in general agreement with the result of Casertano et al. (2000) in the HDF-S and Williams et al. (1996) in the HDF-N, while the corresponding counts in the HDF-N provided by Fernandez-Soto et al. (1999) are systematically lower by a factor 1.5 beyond I_AB=26. After correcting for the incompleteness of the source counts, the object surface density at I_AB<27.5 is estimated to be 220 per square arcmin, providing an estimate of the Extragalactic Background Light in the I band consistent with the work of Madau & Pozzetti(2000). The comparison between the median V-I color in the HDF-North and South shows a significant difference around I_AB~26, possibly due to the presence of large scale structure at z~1 in the HDF-N. High-z galaxy candidates (90 U dropout and 17 B dropout) were selected by means of color diagrams, down to a magnitude I_AB=27, with a surface density of (21+-1) and (3.9+-0.9) per square arcmin, respectively. 11 EROs (with (I-K)_AB>2.7) were selected down to K_AB=24, plus 3 objects whose upper limit to the Ks flux is still compatible with the selection criterion. The corresponding surface density of EROs is (2.5+-0.8) per sq.arcmin ((3.2+-0.9) per sq.arcmin if we include the three Ks upper limits). They show a remarkably non-uniform spatial distribution and are classified with roughly equal fractions in the categories of elliptical and starburst galaxies.

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