Hubble Deep Field catalog of color-based redshift Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Wang Y.
  2. Bahcall N.
  3. Turner E.L.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We derive simple empirical color-redshift relations for z<~4 galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) using a linear function of three photometric colors (U-B, B-V, V-I). The dispersion between the estimated redshifts and the spectroscopically observed ones is small for relations derived in several separate color regimes; the dispersions range from {sigma}_z_~=0.03 to 0.1 for z<~2 galaxies, and from {sigma}_z_~=0.14 to 0.25 for z>~2 galaxies. We apply the color-redshift relations to the HDF photometric catalog and obtain estimated redshifts that are consistent with those derived from spectral template fitting methods. The advantage of these color-redshift relations is that they are simple and easy to use and do not depend on the assumption of any particular spectral templates; they provide model independent redshift estimates for z<~4 galaxies using only multiband photometry, and they apply to about 90% of all galaxies. We provide a color-based estimated redshift catalog of HDF galaxies to z<~4. We use the estimated redshifts to investigate the redshift distribution of galaxies in the HDF; we find peaks in the redshift distribution that suggest large-scale clustering of galaxies to at least z~1 and that are consistent with those identified in spectroscopic probes of the HDF.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. photometry
  3. redshifted
  4. infrared-photometry
  5. visible-astronomy
  6. Wide-band photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1998AJ....116.2081W
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/116/2081
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51162081

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History

1999-04-07T14:40:22Z
Resource record created
1999-04-07T14:40:22Z
Created
2023-04-06T16:50:30Z
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