%0 Generic %1 calvi2015bright %A Calvi, V. %A Trenti, M. %A Stiavelli, M. %A Oesch, P. %A Bradley, L. D. %A Schmidt, K. B. %A Coe, D. %A Brammer, G. %A Bernard, S. %A Bouwens, R. J. %A Carrasco, D. %A Carollo, C. M. %A Holwerda, B. W. %A MacKenty, J. W. %A Mason, C. A. %A Shull, J. M. %A Treu, T. %D 2015 %K galaxy high-z luminous %T Bright galaxies at Hubble's redshift detection frontier: Preliminary results and design from the redshift z~9-10 BoRG pure-parallel HST survey %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05363 %X We present the first results and design from the redshift z~9-10 Brightest of the Reionizing Galaxies Hubble Space Telescope survey BoRGz9-10, aimed at searching for intrinsically luminous unlensed galaxies during the first 700 Myr after the Big Bang. BoRGz9-10 is the continuation of a multi-year pure-parallel near-IR and optical imaging campaign with the Wide Field Camera 3. The ongoing survey uses five filters, optimized for detecting the most distant objects and offering continuous wavelength coverage from łambda=0.35\mum to łambda=1.7\mum. We analyze the initial ~130 arcmin$^2$ of area over 28 independent lines of sight (~25% of the total planned) to search for z>7 galaxies using a combination of Lyman break and photometric redshift selections. From an effective comoving volume of (5-25) $times 10^5$ Mpc$^3$ for magnitudes brighter than $m_AB=26.5-24.0$ in the $H_160$-band respectively, we find five galaxy candidates at z~8.3-10 detected at high confidence (S/N>8), including a source at z~8.4 with mAB=24.5 (S/N~22), which, if confirmed, would be the brightest galaxy identified at such early times (z>8). In addition, BoRGz9-10 data yield four galaxies with $7.3 z 8$. These new Lyman break galaxies with m$łesssim26.5$ are ideal targets for follow-up observations from ground and space based observatories to help investigate the complex interplay between dark matter growth, galaxy assembly, and reionization.

@misc{calvi2015bright, abstract = {We present the first results and design from the redshift z~9-10 Brightest of the Reionizing Galaxies {\it Hubble Space Telescope} survey BoRG[z9-10], aimed at searching for intrinsically luminous unlensed galaxies during the first 700 Myr after the Big Bang. BoRG[z9-10] is the continuation of a multi-year pure-parallel near-IR and optical imaging campaign with the Wide Field Camera 3. The ongoing survey uses five filters, optimized for detecting the most distant objects and offering continuous wavelength coverage from {\lambda}=0.35{\mu}m to {\lambda}=1.7{\mu}m. We analyze the initial ~130 arcmin$^2$ of area over 28 independent lines of sight (~25% of the total planned) to search for z>7 galaxies using a combination of Lyman break and photometric redshift selections. From an effective comoving volume of (5-25) $times 10^5$ Mpc$^3$ for magnitudes brighter than $m_{AB}=26.5-24.0$ in the $H_{160}$-band respectively, we find five galaxy candidates at z~8.3-10 detected at high confidence (S/N>8), including a source at z~8.4 with mAB=24.5 (S/N~22), which, if confirmed, would be the brightest galaxy identified at such early times (z>8). In addition, BoRG[z9-10] data yield four galaxies with $7.3 \lesssim z \lesssim 8$. These new Lyman break galaxies with m$\lesssim26.5$ are ideal targets for follow-up observations from ground and space based observatories to help investigate the complex interplay between dark matter growth, galaxy assembly, and reionization.}, added-at = {2015-12-18T09:26:02.000+0100}, author = {Calvi, V. and Trenti, M. and Stiavelli, M. and Oesch, P. and Bradley, L. D. and Schmidt, K. B. and Coe, D. and Brammer, G. and Bernard, S. and Bouwens, R. J. and Carrasco, D. and Carollo, C. M. and Holwerda, B. W. and MacKenty, J. W. and Mason, C. A. and Shull, J. M. and Treu, T.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f38302f33c0ae786b7b6641b00bab6e4/miki}, description = {[1512.05363] Bright galaxies at Hubble's redshift detection frontier: Preliminary results and design from the redshift z~9-10 BoRG pure-parallel HST survey}, interhash = {712413586619bdbc4bd3d18450528de7}, intrahash = {f38302f33c0ae786b7b6641b00bab6e4}, keywords = {galaxy high-z luminous}, note = {cite arxiv:1512.05363Comment: Accepted for publication on ApJ. 21 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables}, timestamp = {2015-12-18T09:26:02.000+0100}, title = {Bright galaxies at Hubble's redshift detection frontier: Preliminary results and design from the redshift z~9-10 BoRG pure-parallel HST survey}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05363}, year = 2015 }