The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2024)
EPOCHS. II. The Ultraviolet Luminosity Function from 7.5 < z < 13.5 Using 180 arcmin2 of Deep, Blank Fields from the PEARLS Survey and Public JWST Data
- Nathan J. Adams,
- Christopher J. Conselice,
- Duncan Austin,
- Thomas Harvey,
- Leonardo Ferreira,
- James Trussler,
- Ignas Juodžbalis,
- Qiong Li,
- Rogier Windhorst,
- Seth H. Cohen,
- Rolf A. Jansen,
- Jake Summers,
- Scott Tompkins,
- Simon P. Driver,
- Aaron Robotham,
- Jordan C. J. D’Silva,
- Haojing Yan,
- Dan Coe,
- Brenda Frye,
- Norman A. Grogin,
- Anton M. Koekemoer,
- Madeline A. Marshall,
- Nor Pirzkal,
- Russell E. Ryan Jr.,
- W. Peter Maksym,
- Michael J. Rutkowski,
- Christopher N. A. Willmer,
- Heidi B. Hammel,
- Mario Nonino,
- Rachana Bhatawdekar,
- Stephen M. Wilkins,
- Larry D. Bradley,
- Tom Broadhurst,
- Cheng Cheng,
- Hervé Dole,
- Nimish P. Hathi,
- Adi Zitrin
Affiliations
- Nathan J. Adams
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- Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester , Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- Christopher J. Conselice
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- Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester , Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- Duncan Austin
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- Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester , Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- Thomas Harvey
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- Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester , Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- Leonardo Ferreira
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria , Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC V8P 1A1, Canada
- James Trussler
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- Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester , Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- Ignas Juodžbalis
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- Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester , Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- Qiong Li
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- Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester , Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
- Rogier Windhorst
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University , Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA
- Seth H. Cohen
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University , Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA
- Rolf A. Jansen
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University , Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA
- Jake Summers
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University , Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA
- Scott Tompkins
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University , Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA
- Simon P. Driver
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- International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the International Space Centre (ISC), The University of Western Australia , M468, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
- Aaron Robotham
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- International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the International Space Centre (ISC), The University of Western Australia , M468, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
- Jordan C. J. D’Silva
- International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the International Space Centre (ISC), The University of Western Australia , M468, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
- Haojing Yan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri , Columbia, MO 65211, USA
- Dan Coe
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- AURA for the European Space Agency (ESA) , Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Brenda Frye
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- University of Arizona , Department of Astronomy/Steward Observatory, 933 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Norman A. Grogin
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
- Anton M. Koekemoer
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
- Madeline A. Marshall
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- National Research Council of Canada , Herzberg Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Centre, 5071 West Saanich Road, Victoria, BC V9E 2E7, Canada; ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) , Australia
- Nor Pirzkal
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
- Russell E. Ryan Jr.
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
- W. Peter Maksym
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- Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Michael J. Rutkowski
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- Minnesota State University-Mankato , Telescope Science Institute, TN141, Mankato, MN 56001, USA
- Christopher N. A. Willmer
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721-0009, USA
- Heidi B. Hammel
- Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. , 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 1475, Washington, DC 20004, USA
- Mario Nonino
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste , via Bazzoni 2, I-34124 Trieste, Italy
- Rachana Bhatawdekar
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- European Space Agency , ESA/ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Stephen M. Wilkins
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- Astronomy Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex , Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
- Larry D. Bradley
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
- Tom Broadhurst
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU , E-48040 Bilbao, Spain; Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) , 20018 Donostia, The Basque Country, Spain; IKERBASQUE , Basque Foundation for Science, Alameda Urquijo, 36-5 E-48008 Bilbao, Spain
- Cheng Cheng
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences , National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China
- Hervé Dole
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- Université Paris-Saclay , CNRS, Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, F-91405 Orsay, France
- Nimish P. Hathi
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
- Adi Zitrin
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- Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad2a7b
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 965,
no. 2
p. 169
Abstract
We present an analysis of the ultraviolet luminosity function (UV LF) and star formation rate density of distant galaxies (7.5 6.5) galaxies from a consistently processed set of deep, near-infrared imaging. Within an area of 180 arcmin ^2 , we identify 1046 candidate galaxies at redshifts z > 6.5 and we use this sample to study the UV LF in four redshift bins between 7.5 < z < 13.5. The measured number density of galaxies at z = 8 and z = 9 matches those of past observations undertaken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Our z = 10.5 measurements lie between early James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) results and past HST results, indicating cosmic variance may be the cause of previous high density measurements. However, the number densities of UV-luminous galaxies at z = 12.5 are high compared to predictions from simulations. When examining the star formation rate density of galaxies at this period, our observations are still largely consistent with a constant star formation efficiency, are slightly lower than previous early estimations using JWST, and support galaxy driven reionization at z ≤ 8.
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