The Oldest Stellar Populations at z ~ 1.5

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2001-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104191v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, including 6 figures, to be published in Astrophysical Ages and Time Scales as an ASP Conference Series volume

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There are at least three reasons for being interested in galaxies at high redshifts that formed most of their stars quite quickly early in the history of the Universe: (1) the ages of their stellar populations can potentially place interesting constraints on cosmological parameters and on the epoch of the earliest major episodes of star formation, (2) their morphologies may provide important clues to the history and mechanisms of spheroid formation, and (3) they are likely to identify the regions of highest overdensity at a given redshift. We describe a systematic search for galaxies at z ~ 1.5 having essentially pure old stellar populations, with little or no recent star formation. Our approach is to apply a "photometric sieve" to the fields of quasars near this redshift, looking for companion objects with the expected spectral-energy distributions. Follow-up observations on two of the fields having candidates discovered by this technique are described.

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