Ouchi, Masami, Mobasher, Bahram, Shimasaku, Kazuhiro, Ferguson, Henry C., Fall, S. Michael, Ono, Yoshiaki, ...
We present results of our large-area survey for z'-band dropout galaxies at z=7 in a 1568 arcmin^2 sky area covering the SDF and GOODS-N fields. Combining our ultra-deep Subaru/Suprime-Cam z'- and...
Expanding the Search for Galaxies at z ~ 7-10 with New NICMOS Parallel Fields (2009)
Henry, Alaina L., Siana, Brian, Malkan, Matthew A., Ashby, Matthew L. N., Bridge, Carrie R., Chary, Ranga-Ram, ...
We have carried out a search for galaxies at z ~ 7-10 in ~14.4 arcmin^2 of new NICMOS parallel imaging taken in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (5.9 arcmin^2), the Cosmic Origins Survey...
Expanding the search for galaxies at z ~7-10 with new NICMOS Parallel Fields (2009)
Henry, Alaina, Siana, Brian, Malkan, Matthew, Ashby, Matthew, Bridge, Carrie, Chary, Ranga-Ram, ...
We have carried out a search for galaxies at z ~ 7-10 in ~14.4 sq. arcmin of new NICMOS parallel imaging taken in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS, 5.9 sq. arcmin), the Cosmic...
Cooray, Asantha, Amblard, Alexandre, Beichman, Charles, Benford, Dominic, Bernstein, Rebecca, Bock, James, ...
(Brief Summary) What is the total radiative content of the Universe since the epoch of recombination? The extragalactic background light (EBL) spectrum captures the redshifted energy released from...
Lee, Seong-Kook, Idzi, Rafal, Ferguson, Henry C., Somerville, Rachel S., Wiklind, Tommy, Giavalisco, Mauro
We investigate the biases and uncertainties in estimates of physical parameters of high-redshift Lyman break galaxies (LBGs), such as stellar mass, mean stellar population age, and star formation...
The Discovery of Primeval Galaxies and the Epoch of Galaxy Formation (2007)
Max Pettini, Charles C. Steidel, Kurt L. Adelberger, Melinda Kellogg, Mark Dickinson, Mauro Giavalisco
In the last two years there have been major advances in our ability to identify and study normal star forming galaxies at high redshifts, when the universe was only 15 % of its present age. We review...
The Spectra of Star Forming Galaxies at High Redshift (2007)
At High Redshift, Max Pettini, Charles C. Steidel, Mark Dickinson, Mauro Giavalisco, Kurt L. Adelberger
. We review the spectral properties of the population of star forming galaxies at z ΒΈ 3 discovered using a colour selection technique which targets the Lyman discontinuity at 912 A. The UV...
C. Megan Urry, Riccardo Scarpa, Mauro Giavalisco, Renato Falomo, Joseph E. Pesce, Aldo Treves
AGN are known to lie in galaxies, and both galaxies and AGN evolve similarly over cosmic time (e.g., Silk and Rees 1998). This suggests a close connection between the nuclear phenomena associated...
New Constraints on the Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction at z~1.3 (2007)
Siana, Brian, Teplitz, Harry I., Colbert, James, Ferguson, Henry C., Dickinson, Mark, Brown, Thomas M., ...
We examine deep far-ultraviolet (1600 Angstrom) imaging of the Hubble Deep Field-North (HDFN) and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) to search for leaking Lyman continuum radiation from starburst...
Clustering of the IR Background Light with Spitzer: Contribution from Resolved Sources (2006)
Sullivan, Ian, Cooray, Asantha, Chary, Ranga-Ram, Bock, James J., Brodwin, Mark, Brown, Michael J. I., ...
We describe the angular power spectrum of resolved sources at 3.6 microns (L-band) in Spitzer imaging data of the GOODS HDF-N, the GOODS CDF-S, and the NDWFS Bootes field in several source magnitude...
Dahlen, Tomas, Mobasher, Bahram, Dickinson, Mark, Ferguson, Henry C., Giavalisco, Mauro, Kretchmer, Claudia, ...
Using the multiwavelength photometric and spectroscopic data covering the CDF-S obtained within the GOODS, we investigate the rest-frame UV properties of galaxies to z~2.2, including the evolution of...
Yan, Haojing, Dickinson, Mark, Giavalisco, Mauro, Stern, Daniel, Eisenhardt, Peter R. M., Ferguson, Henry C.
Using the deep Spitzer IRAC observations of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), we study the stellar masses and star formation histories of galaxies at z ~ 6. Our study is based on...
The large-scale and small-scale clustering of Lyman Break Galaxies at 3.5 (2006)
Lee, Kyoung-Soo, Giavalisco, Mauro, Gnedin, Oleg Y., Somerville, Rachel S., Ferguson, Henry C., Dickinson, Mark, ...
We report on the angular correlation function of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at z~4 and 5 from deep samples obtained from the Great Observatories Deep Origins Survey (GOODS). As for LBGs at z~3, the...
Lee, Kyoung-Soo, Giavalisco, Mauro, Gnedin, Oleg Y., Somerville, Rachel S., Ferguson, Henry C., Dickinson, Mark, ...
We report on the angular correlation function of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z~4 and 5 from deep samples obtained from the Great Observatories Deep Origins Survey (GOODS). Similar to LBGs at z~3,...
Yan, Haojing, Dickinson, Mark, Stern, Daniel, Eisenhardt, Peter R. M., Chary, Ranga-Ram, Giavalisco, Mauro, ...
We use data from the first epoch of observations with the IRAC/Spitzer for the GOODS to detect and study a collection of LBGs at z ~ 6 to 5 in the HUDF, six of which have spectroscopic confirmation....
Dahlen, Tomas, Mobasher, Bahram, Somerville, Rachel S., Moustakas, Leonidas A., Dickinson, Mark, Ferguson, Henry C., ...
Using Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based U through K- band photometry from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), we measure the evolution of the luminosity function and luminosity...
Papovich, Casey, Dickinson, Mark, Giavalisco, Mauro, Conselice, Christopher J., Ferguson, Henry C.
We have studied the evolution in the morphologies, sizes, stellar-masses, colors, and internal color dispersion (ICD) of galaxies at z=1 and 2.3, using a near-IR, flux-limited catalog for the HDF-N....
High Redshift Supernova Rates (2004)
Dahlen, Tomas, Strolger, Louis-Gregory, Riess, Adam G., Mobasher, Bahram, Chary, Ranga-Ram, Conselice, Christopher J., ...
We use a sample of 42 supernovae detected with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on-board the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey to measure the rate of core...
Riess, Adam G., Strolger, Louis-Gregory, Tonry, John, Casertano, Stefano, Ferguson, Henry C., Mobasher, Bahram, ...
We have discovered 16 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and have used them to provide the first conclusive evidence for cosmic deceleration that preceded the current...
Cross-Talk in the ACS WFC Detectors. I: Description of the Effect (2004)
Images acquired with the Wide Field Channel (WFC) of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) are affected by cross talk between the four CCD quadrants that correspond to the four amplifiers of the...
Cross-Talk in the ACS WFC Detectors. II: Using GAIN=2 to Minimize the Effect (2004)
Cross talk is observed in images taken with ACS WFC between the four CCD quadrants that correspond to the four amplifiers of the detector array (see Giavalisco 2004). The effect manifests itself as...
Evolution in the Colors of Lyman-Break Galaxies from Z~4 to Z~3 (2003)
Papovich, Casey, Dickinson, Mark, Ferguson, Henry C., Giavalisco, Mauro, Lotz, Jennifer, Madau, Piero, ...
The integrated colors of distant galaxies provide a means for interpreting the properties of their stellar content. Here, we use rest-frame UV-to-optical colors to constrain the spectral-energy...
Moustakas, Leonidas A., Casertano, Stefano, Conselice, Chris, Dickinson, Mark E., Eisenhardt, Peter, Ferguson, Henry C., ...
Using U'- through Ks-band imaging data in the GOODS-South field, we construct a large, complete sample of 275 ``extremely red objects'' (EROs; K_s3.35; AB), all with deep HST/ACS imaging in B_435,...
The Size Evolution of High Redshift Galaxies (2003)
Ferguson, Henry C., Dickinson, Mark, Giavalisco, Mauro, Kretchmer, Claudia, Ravindranath, Swara, Idzi, Rafal, ...
Hubble Space Telescope images of high-redshift galaxies selected via color and photometric redshifts are used to examine the size and axial-ratio distribution of galaxies as a function of redshift at...
Cosmic Variance in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (2003)
Somerville, Rachel S., Lee, Kyoungsoo, Ferguson, Henry C., Gardner, Jonathan P., Moustakas, Leonidas A., Giavalisco, Mauro
Cosmic variance is the uncertainty in observational estimates of the volume density of extragalactic objects such as galaxies or quasars arising from the underlying large-scale density fluctuations....
The z ~ 4 Lyman Break Galaxies: Colors and Theoretical Predictions (2003)
Idzi, Rafal, Somerville, Rachel, Papovich, Casey, Ferguson, Henry C., Giavalisco, Mauro, Kretchmer, Claudia, ...
We investigate several fundamental properties of z ~ 4 Lyman-break galaxies by comparing observations with the predictions of a semi-analytic model based on the Cold Dark Matter theory of...
Near-Infrared Observations of BL Lacertae Host Galaxies (2003)
Cheung, C. C., Urry, C. Megan, Scarpa, Riccardo, Giavalisco, Mauro
Multi-band near-infrared images of twelve BL Lacertae objects were obtained with the 2.5m telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in order to determine the properties of their underlying host...
Papovich, Casey, Giavalisco, Mauro, Dickinson, Mark, Conselice, Christopher J., Ferguson, Henry C.
We present a quantitative measure of the internal color dispersion within galaxies, which quantifies differences in morphology as a function of wavelength. We apply this statistic to a local galaxy...
Riess, Adam G., Strolger, Louis-Gregory, Tonry, John, Tsvetanov, Zlatan, Casertano, Stefano, Ferguson, Henry C., ...
We present discoveries of SNe Ia at z > 1 and the photometric diagnostic used to discriminate them from other types of SNe detected during the GOODS Hubble Space Telescope Treasury program with the...
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (2002)
Dickinson, Mark, Giavalisco, Mauro, Team, For The GOODS
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) is designed to gather the best and deepest multiwavelength data for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies and active galactic nuclei,...
The Clustering Properties of Lyman-Break Galaxies at Redshift z~3 (2001)
Porciani, Cristiano, Giavalisco, Mauro
We present a new measure of the angular two-point correlation function of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z~3, obtained from the variance of galaxy counts in 2-dimensional cells. By avoiding binning...
Pettini, Max, Shapley, Alice E., Steidel, Charles C., Cuby, Jean-Gabriel, Dickinson, Mark, Moorwood, Alan F. M., ...
We present the first results of a spectroscopic survey of Lyman break galaxies in the near-infrared aimed at detecting the emission lines of [O II], [O III], and Hbeta from the H II regions of star...
Deep Observations of Lyman Break Galaxies (2001)
Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Shapley, Alice E., Adelberger, Kurt L., Moorwood, Alan F. M., Cuby, Jean-Gabriel, ...
We summarise the main results of recent work on the Lyman break galaxy population which takes advantage of newly commissioned instrumentation on the VLT and Keck telescopes to push the detection of...
Clustering Segregation With UV Luminosity in Lyman-Break Galaxies at z~3 and Its Implications (2000)
Giavalisco, Mauro, Dickinson, Mark
We report on the clustering properties of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z~3. The correlation length of flux-limited samples of LBGs depends on their rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) luminosity at lambda...
A search for the submillimetre counterparts to Lyman break galaxies (1999)
Chapman, Scott C., Scott, Douglas, Steidel, Charles C., Borys, Colin, Halpern, Mark, Morris, Simon L., ...
We have carried out targetted sub-mm observations as part of a programme to explore the connection between the rest-frame UV and far-IR properties of star-forming galaxies at high redshift, which is...
The Ultraviolet Spectrum of MS 1512-cB58: An Insight into Lyman Break Galaxies (1999)
Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Adelberger, Kurt L., Dickinson, Mark, Giavalisco, Mauro
We present an intermediate resolution, high S/N spectrum of the z = 2.7268 galaxy MS 1512-cB58, obtained with LRIS on the Keck I telescope and covering the rest frame far-UV from 1150 to 1930 A....
HST Observations of the Host Galaxies of BL Lacertae Objects (1998)
Urry, C. Megan, Falomo, Renato, Scarpa, Riccardo, Pesce, Joseph E., Treves, Aldo, Giavalisco, Mauro
Six BL Lac objects from the complete 1 Jy radio-selected sample of 34 objects were observed in Cycle 5 with the HST WFPC2 camera to an equivalent limiting flux of mu_I~26 mag/arcsec^2. Here we report...
Infared Observations of Nebular Emission Lines from Galaxies at z = 3 (1998)
Pettini, Max, Kellogg, Melinda, Steidel, Charles C., Dickinson, Mark, Adelberger, Kurt L., Giavalisco, Mauro
We present the first results from a program of near-infrared spectroscopy aimed at studying the familiar rest-frame optical emission lines from the H II regions of Lyman break galaxies at z = 3. By...
The Angular Clustering of Lyman-Break Galaxies at Redshift z=3 (1998)
Giavalisco, Mauro, Steidel, Charles C., Adelberger, Kurt L., Dickinson, Mark E., Pettini, Max, Kellogg, Melinda
We have measured the angular correlation function w(theta) for a sample of 871 Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z=3. Fitting a power-law to a weighted average of w(theta) from 5 fields, we find the...
The Discovery of Primeval Galaxies and the Epoch of Galaxy Formation (1997)
Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Adelberger, Kurt L., Kellogg, . Melinda, Dickinson, Mark, Giavalisco, Mauro
We review the steps which have led to the discovery of a widespread population of objects at z = 3 with many of the characteristics which we expect for primeval galaxies, and emphasize in particular...
The Spectra of Star Forming Galaxies at High Redshift (1997)
Pettini, Max, Steidel, Charles C., Dickinson, Mark, Kellogg, Melinda, Giavalisco, Mauro, Adelberger, Kurt L.
We review the spectral properties of the population of star forming galaxies at z = 3 discovered using a colour selection technique which targets the Lyman discontinuity at 912 Angstroms. The UV...
Madau, Piero, Ferguson, Henry C., Dickinson, Mark E., Giavalisco, Mauro, Steidel, Charles C., Fruchter, Andrew
The Lyman decrement associated with the cumulative effect of HI in QSO absorption systems along the line of sight provides a distinctive feature for identifying galaxies at z>2.5. The Hubble Deep...
Spectroscopy of Lyman Break Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (1996)
Steidel, Charles C., Giavalisco, Mauro, Dickinson, Mark, Adelberger, Kurt L.
We report on the initial results of a spectroscopic investigation of galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field which exhibit spectral discontinuities between the F450W and F300W passbands, indicative of the...
Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts z>3 (1996)
Giavalisco, Mauro, Steidel, Charles C., Macchetto, F. Duccio
We present HST images of star-forming galaxies at redshifts z>3. These galaxies have been color selected for having a Lyman discontinuity in the otherwise flat (in f_\nu units) UV spectra of...