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A&A
Volume 563, March 2014
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Article Number | A142 | |
Number of page(s) | 11 | |
Section | Catalogs and data | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321654 | |
Published online | 25 March 2014 |
Deep R-band counts of z ≈ 3 Lyman-break galaxy candidates with the LBT⋆,⋆⋆
1 INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via Frascati 33, 00040 Monteporzio (RM), Italy
e-mail: konstantina.boutsia@oa-roma.inaf.it
2 INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Received: 5 April 2013
Accepted: 12 November 2013
Aims. We present a deep multiwavelength imaging survey (UGR) in 3 different fields, Q0933, Q1623, and COSMOS, for a total area of ~1500 arcmin2. The data were obtained with the Large Binocular Camera on the Large Binocular Telescope.
Methods. To select our Lyman-break galaxy (LBG) candidates, we adopted the well established and widely used color-selection criterion (U − G vs. G − R). One of the main advantages of our survey is that it has a wider dynamic color range for U-dropout selection than in previous studies. This allows us to fully exploit the depth of our R-band images, obtaining a robust sample with few interlopers. In addition, for 2 of our fields we have spectroscopic redshift information that is needed to better estimate the completeness of our sample and interloper fraction.
Results. Our limiting magnitudes reach 27.0(AB) in the R band (5σ) and 28.6(AB) in the U band (1σ). This dataset was used to derive LBG candidates at z ≈ 3. We obtained a catalog with a total of 12 264 sources down to the 50% completeness magnitude limit in the R band for each field. We find a surface density of ~3 LBG candidates arcmin-2 down to R = 25.5, where completeness is ≥95% for all 3 fields. This number is higher than the original studies, but consistent with more recent samples.
Key words: surveys / catalogs / galaxies: high-redshift / galaxies: photometry / ultraviolet: galaxies
Observations were carried out using the Large Binocular Telescope at Mt. Graham, AZ. The LBT is an international collaboration among institutions in the United States, Italy, and Germany. LBT Corporation partners are The University of Arizona on behalf of the Arizona university system; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy; LBT Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Germany, representing the Max-Planck Society, the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, and Heidelberg University; The Ohio State University; and The Research Corporation, on behalf of The University of Notre Dame, University of Minnesota, and University of Virginia.
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© ESO, 2014
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