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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Morris, Aaron M.
• Kocevski, Dale D.
• Trump, Jonathan R.
• Weiner, Benjamin J.
• Hathi, Nimish P.
• Barro, Guillermo
• Dahlen, Tomas
• Faber, Sandra M.
• Finkelstein, Steven L.
• Fontana, Adriano
• Ferguson, Henry C.
• Grogin, Norman A.
• Grützbauch, Ruth
• Guo, Yicheng
• Hsu, Li-Ting
• Koekemoer, Anton M.
• Koo, David C.
• Mobasher, Bahram
• Pforr, Janine
• Salvato, Mara
• Wiklind, Tommy
• Wuyts, Stijn

Titel

A WFC3 GRISM EMISSION LINE REDSHIFT CATALOG IN THE GOODS-SOUTH FIELD

Ist Teil von

• The Astronomical journal, 2015-06, Vol.149 (6), p.1-10

Ort / Verlag

United States: The American Astronomical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• ABSTRACT We combine Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Wide Field Camera3 (WFC3) imaging and G141 grism observations from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) and 3D-HST surveys to produce a catalog of grism spectroscopic redshifts for galaxies in the CANDELS/GOODS-South field. The WFC3/G141 grism spectra cover a wavelength range of m with a resolving power of for point sources, thus providing rest-frame optical spectra for galaxies out to . The catalog is selected in the H-band (F160W) and includes both galaxies with and without previously published spectroscopic redshifts. Grism spectra are extracted for all H-band detected galaxies with H 24 and a CANDELS photometric redshift . The resulting spectra are visually inspected to identify emission lines, and redshifts are determined using cross-correlation with empirical spectral templates. To establish the accuracy of our redshifts, we compare our results against high-quality spectroscopic redshifts from the literature. Using a sample of 411 control galaxies, this analysis yields a precision of for the grism-derived redshifts, which is consistent with the accuracy reported by the 3D-HST team. Our final catalog covers an area of 153 arcmin2 and contains 1019 redshifts for galaxies in GOODS-S. Roughly 60% (608/1019) of these redshifts are for galaxies with no previously published spectroscopic redshift. These new redshifts span a range of and have a median redshift of z = 1.282. The catalog contains a total of 234 new redshifts for galaxies at . In addition, we present 20 galaxy pair candidates identified for the first time using the grism redshifts in our catalog, including four new galaxy pairs at , nearly doubling the number of such pairs previously identified.