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CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey
Finkelstein, Steven L.; Bell, Eric F.; Castellano, Marco +104 more
The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) is designed to document the first third of galactic evolution, over the approximate redshift (z) range 8-1.5. It will image >250,000 distant galaxies using three separate cameras on the Hubble Space Telescope, from the mid-ultraviolet to the near-infrared, and will fin…
CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey—The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products, and Mosaics
Finkelstein, Steven L.; Bell, Eric F.; Castellano, Marco +121 more
This paper describes the Hubble Space Telescope imaging data products and data reduction procedures for the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). This survey is designed to document the evolution of galaxies and black holes at z ≈ 1.5-8, and to study Type Ia supernovae at z > 1.5. Five premier multi-wavelengt…
A 3% Solution: Determination of the Hubble Constant with the Hubble Space Telescope and Wide Field Camera 3
Ferguson, Henry C.; Casertano, Stefano; Filippenko, Alexei V. +6 more
We use the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to determine the Hubble constant from optical and infrared observations of over 600 Cepheid variables in the host galaxies of eight recent Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), providing the calibration for a magnitude-redshift relation based on 253 SNe Ia. Increased precision over p…
GOODS-Herschel: an infrared main sequence for star-forming galaxies
Magnelli, B.; Lutz, D.; Altieri, B. +52 more
We present the deepest 100 to 500 µm far-infrared observations obtained with the Herschel Space Observatory as part of the GOODS-Herschel key program, and examine the infrared (IR) 3-500 µm spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies at 0 < z < 2.5, supplemented by a local reference sample from IRAS, ISO, Spitzer, and AKARI …
Supernova Constraints and Systematic Uncertainties from the First Three Years of the Supernova Legacy Survey
Sullivan, M.; Lidman, C.; González-Gaitán, S. +33 more
We combine high-redshift Type Ia supernovae from the first three years of the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) with other supernova (SN) samples, primarily at lower redshifts, to form a high-quality joint sample of 472 SNe (123 low-z, 93 SDSS, 242 SNLS, and 14 Hubble Space Telescope). SN data alone require cosmic acceleration at >99.999% confiden…
The Lesser Role of Starbursts in Star Formation at z = 2
Berta, S.; Magnelli, B.; Nordon, R. +31 more
Two main modes of star formation are know to control the growth of galaxies: a relatively steady one in disk-like galaxies, defining a tight star formation rate (SFR)-stellar mass sequence, and a starburst mode in outliers to such a sequence which is generally interpreted as driven by merging. Such starburst galaxies are rare but have much higher …
Galaxy Structure and Mode of Star Formation in the SFR-Mass Plane from z ~ 2.5 to z ~ 0.1
Barro, Guillermo; Hathi, Nimish P.; Kocevski, Dale D. +23 more
We analyze the dependence of galaxy structure (size and Sérsic index) and mode of star formation (ΣSFR and SFRIR/SFRUV) on the position of galaxies in the star formation rate (SFR) versus mass diagram. Our sample comprises roughly 640,000 galaxies at z ~ 0.1, 130,000 galaxies at z ~ 1, and 36,000 galaxies at z ~ 2.…
The Sins Survey of z ~ 2 Galaxy Kinematics: Properties of the Giant Star-forming Clumps
Lutz, D.; Förster Schreiber, N. M.; Genzel, R. +24 more
We have studied the properties of giant star-forming clumps in five z ~ 2 star-forming disks with deep SINFONI AO spectroscopy at the ESO VLT. The clumps reside in disk regions where the Toomre Q-parameter is below unity, consistent with their being bound and having formed from gravitational instability. Broad Hα/[N II] line wings demonstrate that…
Ultraviolet Luminosity Functions from 132 z ~ 7 and z ~ 8 Lyman-break Galaxies in the Ultra-deep HUDF09 and Wide-area Early Release Science WFC3/IR Observations
Trenti, M.; Oesch, P. A.; Carollo, C. M. +8 more
We identify 73 z ~ 7 and 59 z ~ 8 candidate galaxies in the reionization epoch, and use this large 26-29.4 AB mag sample of galaxies to derive very deep luminosity functions to < - 18 AB mag and the star formation rate (SFR) density at z ~ 7 and z ~ 8 (just 800 Myr and 650 Myr after recombination, respectively). The galaxy sample is derived usi…
The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 4 Ms Source Catalogs
Smail, I.; Lehmer, B. D.; Hornschemeier, A. E. +22 more
We present source catalogs for the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S), which is the deepest Chandra survey to date and covers an area of 464.5 arcmin2. We provide a main Chandra source catalog, which contains 740 X-ray sources that are detected with WAVDETECT at a false-positive probability threshold of 10-5 in at least on…