UVUDF: ULTRAVIOLET THROUGH NEAR-INFRARED CATALOG AND PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS OF GALAXIES IN THE HUBBLE ULTRA DEEP FIELD

作者:Rafelski Marc; Teplitz Harry I; Gardner Jonathan P; Coe Dan; Bond Nicholas A; Koekemoer Anton M; Grogin Norman; Kurczynski Peter; McGrath Elizabeth J; Bourque Matthew; Atek Hakim; Brown Thomas M; Colbert James W; Codoreanu Alex; Ferguson Henry C; Finkelstein Steven L; Gawiser Eric; Giavalisco Mauro; Gronwall Caryl; Hanish Daniel J; Lee Kyoung Soo; Mehta Vihang; De Mello Duilia F; Ravindranath Swara; Ryan Russell E; Scarlata Claudia; Siana Brian
来源:Astronomical Journal, 2015, 150(1): 31.
DOI:10.1088/0004-6256/150/1/31

摘要

We present photometry and derived redshifts from up to eleven bandpasses for 9927 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep field (UDF), covering an observed wavelength range from the near-ultraviolet (NUV) to the near-infrared (NIR) with Hubble Space Telescope observations. Our Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)/UV F225W, F275W, and F336W image mosaics from the ultra-violet UDF (UVUDF) imaging campaign are newly calibrated to correct for charge transfer inefficiency, and use new dark calibrations to minimize background gradients and pattern noise. Our NIR WFC3/IR image mosaics combine the imaging from the UDF09 and UDF12 campaigns with CANDELS data to provide NIR coverage for the entire UDF field of view. We use aperture-matched point-spread function corrected photometry to measure photometric redshifts in the UDF, sampling both the Lyman break and Balmer break of galaxies at z similar to 0.8-3.4, and one of the breaks over the rest of the redshift range. Our comparison of these results with a compilation of robust spectroscopic redshifts shows an improvement in the galaxy photometric redshifts by a factor of two in scatter and a factor three in outlier fraction (OLF) over previous UDF catalogs. The inclusion of the new NUV data is responsible for a factor of two decrease in the OLF compared to redshifts determined from only the optical and NIR data, and improves the scatter at z < 0.5 and at z > 2. The panchromatic coverage of the UDF from the NUV through the NIR yields robust photometric redshifts of the UDF, with the lowest OLF available.

  • 出版日期2015-7