Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: We present high-resolution Near-Infrared Camera and Multiobject Spectrometer images of random fields obtained in parallel to other Hubble Space Telescope observations. We present galaxy number counts reaching H 1.6 =24. The H 1.6 -band galaxy counts show good agreement with the deepest I - and K -band counts obtained from ground-based data. We present the distribution of galaxies with morphological type to H 1.6 <23. We find relatively fewer irregular galaxies compared with an I -band sample from the Hubble Deep Field, which we attribute to their blue color rather than to morphological K -corrections. We conclude that the irregulars are intrinsically faint blue galaxies at z <1.
Source: The Astrophysical Journal
DOI: 10.1086/311665
Authors: Harry I. Teplitz, Jonathan P. Gardner, Eliot M. Malumuth, Sara R. Heap
Institutions: Goddard Space Flight Center, Raytheon (United States)
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Goddard Space Flight Center
OpenAlex ID: W2063835576