The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey - VLT/FORS2 Spectroscopy in the GOODS-South Field
By E. Vanzella, S. Cristiani, Mark Dickinson, H. Kuntschner, L. Moustakas, M. Nonino, Piero Rosati, D. Stern, C. Cesarsky, S. Ettori and 7 more. 2004
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We present the first results of the ESO/GOODS program of spectroscopy of faint galaxies in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S). 399 spectra of 303 unique targets have been obtained in service mode with the FORS2 spectrograph at the ESO/VLT, providing 234 redshift determinations (the median of the redshift distribution is at 1.04). The typical redshift uncertainty is estimated to be sig(z) ~ 0.001. Galaxies have been color selected in a way that the resulting redshift distribution typically spans from z=0.5 to 2. The reduced spectra and the derived redshifts are released to the community through the ESO web page http://www.eso.org/science/goods/ Large scale structure is clearly detected at z ~ 0.67, 0.73, 1.10 and 1.61. Three Lyman-break galaxies have also been included as targets and are confirmed to have redshifts z=4.800, 4.882 and 5.828. In a few cases, we observe clear [OII]3727 rotation curves, even at the relatively low resolution (R = 860) of the present observations. Assuming that the observed velocity structure is due to dynamically-relaxed rotation, this is an indication of large galactic masses (few times 10^(11) solar masses) at z ~ 1.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation
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- Mark Dickinson
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- D. M. Alexander
- P. V. van Dokkum
- R. McLure
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- The reversal of the star formation-density relation in the distant universe (2007, methodology): “The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS, see Dickinson & Giavalisco 2002) is aSpitzer Legacy Program (PI M.Dickinson) and an Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury Program (PI M.Giavalisco) consisting of two fields from the two hemispheres, GOODS-North and GOODS-South (hereafter GOODS-N…”