Brightest high-z galaxies in RELICS clusters Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Salmon B.
  2. Coe D.
  3. Bradley L.
  4. Bouwens R.
  5. Bradac M.
  6. Huang K.-H.,Oesch P.A.
  7. Stark D.
  8. Sharon K.
  9. Trenti M.
  10. Avila R.J.
  11. Ogaz S.,Andrade-Santos F.
  12. Carrasco D.
  13. Cerny C.
  14. Dawson W.
  15. Frye B.L.
  16. Hoag A.,Johnson T.L.
  17. Jones C.
  18. Lam D.
  19. Lovisari L.
  20. Mainali R.
  21. Past M.,Paterno-Mahler R.
  22. Peterson A.
  23. Riess A.G.
  24. Rodney S.A.
  25. Ryan R.E.,Sendra-Server I.
  26. Strait V.
  27. Strolger L.-G.
  28. Umetsu K.
  29. Vulcani B.,Zitrin A.
  30. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Massive foreground galaxy clusters magnify and distort the light of objects behind them, permitting a view into both the extremely distant and intrinsically faint galaxy populations. We present here the z~6-8 candidate high-redshift galaxies from the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey (RELICS), a Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescope survey of 41 massive galaxy clusters spanning an area of ~200arcmin^2^. These clusters were selected to be excellent lenses, and we find similar high-redshift sample sizes and magnitude distributions as the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). We discover 257, 57, and eight candidate galaxies at z~6, 7, and 8 respectively, (322 in total). The observed (lensed) magnitudes of the z~6 candidates are as bright as AB mag ~23, making them among the brightest known at these redshifts, comparable with discoveries from much wider, blank-field surveys. RELICS demonstrates the efficiency of using strong gravitational lenses to produce high-redshift samples in the epoch of reionization. These brightly observed galaxies are excellent targets for follow-up study with current and future observatories, including the James Webb Space Telescope.

Keywords
  1. galaxy-clusters
  2. galaxies
  3. infrared-sources
  4. hst-photometry
  5. redshifted
  6. surveys
  7. visible-astronomy
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2020ApJ...889..189S
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History

2021-08-12T10:50:53Z
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2021-08-12T10:50:53Z
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