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Size--luminosity relations and UV luminosity functions at $z=6-9$ simultaneously derived from the complete Hubble Frontier Fields data | | Ryota Kawamata
; Masafumi Ishigaki
; Kazuhiro Shimasaku
; Masamune Oguri
; Masami Ouchi
; Shingo Tanigawa
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19 Oct 2017 | | Abstract: | We construct $zsim6-7$, 8, and 9 faint Lyman break galaxy samples (334, 61,
and 37 galaxies, respectively) with accurate size measurements with the
software $ exttt{glafic}$ from the complete Hubble Frontier Fields (FF)
cluster and parallel fields data. These are the largest samples hitherto and
reach down to the faint ends of recently obtained deep luminosity functions. At
faint magnitudes, however, these samples are highly incomplete for galaxies
with large sizes, implying that derivation of the luminosity function (LF)
sensitively depends on the intrinsic size--luminosity (RL) relation. We thus
conduct simultaneous maximum-likelihood estimation of LF and RL relation
parameters from the observed distribution of galaxies on the RL plane with help
of a completeness map as a function of size and luminosity. At $zsim6-7$, we
find that the intrinsic RL relation expressed as $r_ extrm{e} propto L^eta$
has a notably steeper slope of $eta=0.46^{+0.08}_{-0.09}$ than those at lower
redshifts, which in turn implies that the LF has a relatively shallow faint-end
slope of $alpha=-1.86^{+0.17}_{-0.18}$. This steep $eta$ can be reproduced
by a simple analytical model in which smaller galaxies have lower specific
angular momenta. The $eta$ and $alpha$ values for the $zsim8$ and 9 samples
are consistent with those for $zsim6-7$ but with larger errors. For all three
samples there is a large, positive covariance between $eta$ and $alpha$,
implying that the simultaneous determination of these two parameters is
important. We also provide new strong lens mass models of Abell S1063 and Abell
370 as well as updated mass models of Abell 2744 and MACS J0416.1$-$2403. | | Source: | arXiv, 1710.7301 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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