The Hubble Space Telescope GOODS NICMOS Survey: Overview and the Evolution of Massive Galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3
Date
2010-10-06Author
Conselice, C. J.
Bluck, A. F. L.
Buitrago, F.
Bauer, A. E.
Grützbauch, R.
Bouwens, R. J.
Bevan, S.
Mortlock, A.
Dickinson, M.
Daddi, E.
Yan, H.
Scott, Douglas
Chapman, S. C.
Chary, R. -R
Ferguson, H. C.
Giavalisco, M.
Grogin, N.
Illingworth, G.
Jogee, S.
Koekemoer, A. M.
Lucas, Ray A.
Mobasher, B.
Moustakas, L.
Papovich, C.
Ravindranath, S.
Siana, B.
Teplitz, H.
Trujillo, I.
Urry, M.
Weinzirl, T.
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We present the details and early results from a deep near-infrared survey utilising the NICMOS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope centred around massive M_* > 10^11 M_0 galaxies at 1.7 10^11 M_0, whereby we find an increase of a factor of eight between z = 3 and z = 1.5, demonstrating that this is an epoch when massive galaxies establish most of their mass.
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Conselice, C. J., A. F. L. Bluck, F. Buitrago, A. E. Bauer, et al. 2010. "The Hubble Space Telescope GOODS NICMOS Survey: Overview and the Evolution of Massive Galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 413:80.