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Morphological Number Counts and Redshift Distributions to I = 25 from the Hubble Deep Fields: Constraints on Cosmological Models from Early Type Galaxies | S. Phillipps
; S.P. Driver
; W.J. Couch
; A. Fernandez-Soto
; P.D. Bristow
; S.C. Odewahn
; R.A. Windhorst
; K. Lanzetta
; | Date: |
7 Sep 2000 | Journal: | Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 319 (2000) 807 | Subject: | astro-ph | Abstract: | We combine magnitude and photometric redshift data on galaxies in the Hubble Deep Fields with morphological classifications in order to separate out the distributions for early type galaxies. The updated morphological galaxy number counts down to I = 25 and the corresponding redshift distributions are used as joint constraints on cosmological models, in particular on the values of the density parameter Omega_{0} and normalised cosmological constant Lambda_{0}. We find that an Einstein - de Sitter universe with simple passive evolution gives an excellent fit to the counts and redshift data at all magnitudes. An open, low Omega_{0}, model with no net evolution (and conservation of the number of ellipticals), which fits the counts equally well, is somewhat less successful, predicting slightly lower mean redshifts and, more significantly, the lack of a high--z tail. A number conserving model with a dominant contribution from Lambda_{0}, on the other hand, is far less successful, predicting a much narrower distribution than seen. More complex models are obviously possible, but we conclude that if large scale transmutation between types does {it not} occur, then the lambda-dominated models provide a very poor fit to the current data. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0009111 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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