Star-forming Galaxies in the 'Redshift Desert'
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We describe results of optical and near-IR observations of a large spectroscopic sample of star-forming galaxies photometrically-selected to lie in the redshift range 1.4 < z < 2.5, often called the ``redshift desert'' because of historical difficulty in obtaining spectroscopic redshifts in this range. We show that the former ``redshift desert'' is now very much open to observation.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0401061,
title = {Star-forming Galaxies in the 'Redshift Desert'},
author = {C. Steidel and A. Shapley and M. Pettini and K. Adelberger and D. Erb and N. Reddy and M. Hunt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0401061},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the ESO/USM/MPE Workshop on "Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution", eds. R. Bender and A. Renzini