Star Formation and Structure Formation at Redshifts 1 < z < 4

dc.creatorAdelberger, K. L.
dc.date1999-12-08
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dc.descriptionThe advent of 8m-class telescopes has made galaxies at 1 < z < 4 relatively easy to detect and study. This is a brief and incomplete review of some of the recent results to emerge from surveys at these redshifts. After describing different strategies for finding galaxies at z >~ 1, and the differences (and similarities) in the resulting galaxy samples, I summarize what is known about the spatial clustering of star-forming galaxies at z >~ 1. Optically selected galaxies are the main focus of this review, but in the final section I discuss the connection between optical and sub-mm samples, and argue that the majority of the 850 micron background may have been produced by known optically selected populations at high redshift. Among the new results presented are the dust-corrected luminosity function of Lyman-break galaxies at z~3, the estimated contribution to the 850 micron background from optically selected galaxies at 1<z<5, revised estimates of the spatial clustering strength of Lyman-break galaxies at z~3, and an estimate of the clustering strength of star-forming galaxies at z~1 derived from a new spectroscopic sample of ~800 galaxies with <z> = 1.0, sigma_z = 0.10.
dc.description17 pages including 7 figures, to be published (somewhat abridged) in Clustering at High Redshift, Marseille, June 1999; eds. A Mazure and O. LeFevre
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912153
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912153
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/15405
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleStar Formation and Structure Formation at Redshifts 1 < z < 4
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