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Hainline, KN, Hviding, RE, Rieke, M, Shivaei, I, Endsley, R, Curtis-Lake, E, Smit, R, Williams, CC, Alberts, S, Boyett, KNK, Bunker, AJ, Egami, E, Maseda, M, Tacchella, S and Willmer, CNA (2020) Simulating JWST/NIRCam Color Selection of High-redshift Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 892 (2). ISSN 0004-637X
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Abstract
The Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument on the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will offer an unprecedented view of the most distant galaxies. In preparation for future deep NIRCam extragalactic surveys, it is crucial to understand the color selection of high-redshift galaxies using the Lyman dropout technique. To that end, we have used the JAdes extraGalactic Ultradeep Artificial Realizations mock catalog to simulate a series of extragalactic surveys with realistic noise estimates. This enables us to explore different color selections and their impact on the number density of recovered high-redshift galaxies and lower-redshift interlopers. We explore how survey depth, detection signal-to-noise ratio, color selection method, detection filter choice, and the presence of the Lyα emission line affects the resulting dropout selected samples. We find that redder selection colors reduce the number of recovered high-redshift galaxies, but the overall accuracy of the final sample is higher. In addition, we find that methods that utilize two or three color cuts have higher accuracy because of their ability to select against low-redshift quiescent and faint dusty interloper galaxies. We also explore the near-IR colors of brown dwarfs and demonstrate that, while they are predicted to have low on-sky densities, they are most likely to be recovered in F090W dropout selection, but there are color cuts that help to mitigate this contamination. Overall, our results provide NIRCam selection methods to aid in the creation of large, pure samples of ultra-high-redshift galaxies from photometry alone.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences, 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, 0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural) |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | American Astronomical Society; IOP Publishing |
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| Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2020 10:08 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 07:08 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7dc3 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/13141 |
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