HST imaging of the brightest z\textasciitilde8-9 galaxies from UltraVISTA: the extreme bright end of the UV luminosity function. Stefanon, M., Labbé, I., Bouwens, R. J., Brammer, G. B., Oesch, P., Franx, M., Fynbo, J. P. U., Milvang-Jensen, B., Muzzin, A., Illingworth, G. D., Le Fèvre, O., Caputi, K. I., Holwerda, B. W., McCracken, H. J., Smit, R., & Magee, D. ArXiv e-prints, 1706:arXiv:1706.04613, June, 2017. Paper abstract bibtex We report on the discovery of three especially bright candidate \$z_\{phot\} {\textbackslash}gtrsim 8\$ galaxies. Five sources were targeted for follow-up with HST/WFC3, selected from a larger sample of 16 bright (\$24.8 {\textbackslash}lesssim H{\textbackslash}lesssim25.5\$\textasciitildemag) candidate \$z{\textbackslash}gtrsim 8\$ LBGs identified over the 1.6 degrees\${\textasciicircum}2\$ of the COSMOS/UltraVISTA field. These were identified as \$Y\$ and \$J\$ dropouts by leveraging the deep (\$Y\$-to-\$K_{\textbackslash}mathrm\{S\} {\textbackslash}sim 25.6-25.2\$\textasciitildemag, \$5{\textbackslash}sigma\$) NIR data from the UltraVISTA DR3 release, deep ground based optical imaging from the CFHTLS and Subaru Suprime Cam programs and Spitzer/IRAC mosaics combining observations from the SMUVS and SPLASH programs. Through the refined spectral energy distributions, which now also include new HyperSuprime Cam \$g, r, i, z,\$ and \$Y\$ band data, we confirm that 3/5 galaxies have robust \$z_\{phot\}{\textbackslash}sim8.0-8.7\$, consistent with the initial selection. The remaining 2/5 galaxies have a nominal \$z_\{phot\}{\textbackslash}sim2\$. However, if we use the HST data alone, these objects have increased probability of being at \$z{\textbackslash}sim9\$. Furthermore, we measure mean UV continuum slopes \${\textbackslash}beta=-1.97{\textbackslash}pm0.23\$ for the three \$z{\textbackslash}sim8-9\$ galaxies, marginally bluer than similarly luminous \$z{\textbackslash}sim4-6\$ in CANDELS but consistent with previous measurements of similarly luminous galaxies at \$z {\textbackslash}sim 7\$. The circularized effective radius for our brightest source is \$0.9{\textbackslash}pm0.2\$ kpc, consistent with previous measurements for a bright \$z{\textbackslash}sim11\$ galaxy and bright \$z{\textbackslash}sim7\$ galaxies. Finally, using the \$1/V_{\textbackslash}mathrm\{max\}\$ formalism, we estimate for the first time the volume density of the extreme bright (\$M_{\textbackslash}mathrm\{UV\}{\textbackslash}lesssim -22\$\textasciitildemag) end of the \$z{\textbackslash}sim8\$ UV LF from actual detection of sources, as opposed to current upper limits from non-detections. Despite this exceptional result, the still large statistical uncertainties do not allow us to discriminate between a Schechter and a double power-law form.
@article{stefanon_hst_2017,
title = {{HST} imaging of the brightest z{\textasciitilde}8-9 galaxies from {UltraVISTA}: the extreme bright end of the {UV} luminosity function},
volume = {1706},
shorttitle = {{HST} imaging of the brightest z{\textasciitilde}8-9 galaxies from {UltraVISTA}},
url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017arXiv170604613S},
abstract = {We report on the discovery of three especially bright candidate
\$z\_\{phot\} {\textbackslash}gtrsim 8\$ galaxies. Five sources were targeted for follow-up
with HST/WFC3, selected from a larger sample of 16 bright (\$24.8
{\textbackslash}lesssim H{\textbackslash}lesssim25.5\${\textasciitilde}mag) candidate \$z{\textbackslash}gtrsim 8\$ LBGs identified over
the 1.6 degrees\${\textasciicircum}2\$ of the COSMOS/UltraVISTA field. These were
identified as \$Y\$ and \$J\$ dropouts by leveraging the deep
(\$Y\$-to-\$K\_{\textbackslash}mathrm\{S\} {\textbackslash}sim 25.6-25.2\${\textasciitilde}mag, \$5{\textbackslash}sigma\$) NIR data from the
UltraVISTA DR3 release, deep ground based optical imaging from the
CFHTLS and Subaru Suprime Cam programs and Spitzer/IRAC mosaics
combining observations from the SMUVS and SPLASH programs. Through the
refined spectral energy distributions, which now also include new
HyperSuprime Cam \$g, r, i, z,\$ and \$Y\$ band data, we confirm that 3/5
galaxies have robust \$z\_\{phot\}{\textbackslash}sim8.0-8.7\$, consistent with the initial
selection. The remaining 2/5 galaxies have a nominal \$z\_\{phot\}{\textbackslash}sim2\$.
However, if we use the HST data alone, these objects have increased
probability of being at \$z{\textbackslash}sim9\$. Furthermore, we measure mean UV
continuum slopes \${\textbackslash}beta=-1.97{\textbackslash}pm0.23\$ for the three \$z{\textbackslash}sim8-9\$ galaxies,
marginally bluer than similarly luminous \$z{\textbackslash}sim4-6\$ in CANDELS but
consistent with previous measurements of similarly luminous galaxies at
\$z {\textbackslash}sim 7\$. The circularized effective radius for our brightest source
is \$0.9{\textbackslash}pm0.2\$ kpc, consistent with previous measurements for a bright
\$z{\textbackslash}sim11\$ galaxy and bright \$z{\textbackslash}sim7\$ galaxies. Finally, using the
\$1/V\_{\textbackslash}mathrm\{max\}\$ formalism, we estimate for the first time the volume
density of the extreme bright (\$M\_{\textbackslash}mathrm\{UV\}{\textbackslash}lesssim -22\${\textasciitilde}mag) end of
the \$z{\textbackslash}sim8\$ UV LF from actual detection of sources, as opposed to
current upper limits from non-detections. Despite this exceptional
result, the still large statistical uncertainties do not allow us to
discriminate between a Schechter and a double power-law form.},
journal = {ArXiv e-prints},
author = {Stefanon, Mauro and Labbé, Ivo and Bouwens, Rychard J. and Brammer, Gabriel B. and Oesch, Pascal and Franx, Marijn and Fynbo, Johan P. U. and Milvang-Jensen, Bo and Muzzin, Adam and Illingworth, Garth D. and Le Fèvre, Olivier and Caputi, Karina I. and Holwerda, Benne W. and McCracken, Henry J. and Smit, Renske and Magee, Dan},
month = jun,
year = {2017},
keywords = {Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies},
pages = {arXiv:1706.04613},
}
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