High-z massive galaxies in the HDF-South

Details High-z massive galaxies in the HDF-South High-z massive galaxies in the HDF-South

2003-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310131v2

Astron.Astrophys. 420 (2004) 125-133

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication on A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20040101

[abr] We report the analysis of three galaxies selected in the Hubble Deep Field South at Ks<22 on the basis of their unusually red near-IR color J-K>3. We have used population synthesis models to constrain their redshifts and their stellar masses. One galaxy is at redshift z_p~2.4 while the other two are at z_p~2.9-3.0. All three galaxies have already assembled a stellar mass of about 10^{11} M_sun at the observed redshift placing the possible merging event of their formation at z>3.5. The inferred mass weighted age of their stellar populations implies that the bulk of the stars formed at z_f>3.5. The resulting co-moving density of M_{stars}>10^{11} M_sun galaxies at ~2.7 is rho=1.2(+-0.7)x10^{-4} Mpc^{-3}, about a factor two higher than the predictions of hierarchical models. The comparison with the local density of galaxies implies that the three galaxies must have already formed most of their stellar mass and that they cannot follow an evolution significantly different from a passive aging.The comparison with the density of local L>L* early types (passively evolved galaxies) suggests that their co-moving density cannot decrease by more than a factor 2.5-3 from z=0 to z~3 and that up to 40% of the stellar mass content of bright (L>L*) local early type galaxies was already in place at z>2.5.

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