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2007AJ....133.2418I - Astron. J., 133, 2418-2428 (2007/May-0)

J- and Ks-band galaxy counts and color distributions in the AKARI North Ecliptic Pole field.

IMAI K., MATSUHARA H., OYABU S., WADA T., TAKAGI T., FUJISHIRO N., HANAMI H. and PEARSON C.P.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the J- and Ks-band galaxy counts and galaxy colors covering 750arcmin2 in the deep AKARI north ecliptic pole (NEP) field, using the Florida Multi-object Imaging Near-IR Grism Observational Spectrometer on the Kitt Peak National Observatory 2.1 m telescope. The limiting magnitudes with a signal-to-noise ratio of 3 in the deepest regions are 21.85 and 20.15 in the J and Ks bands, respectively, in the Vega magnitude system. The J- and Ks-band galaxy counts in the AKARI NEP field are broadly in good agreement with those of other results in the literature; however, we find some indication of a change in the galaxy number count slope at J∼19.5 and over the magnitude range 18.0<Ks<19.5. We interpret this feature as a change in the dominant population at these magnitudes because we also find an associated change in the B-Ks color distribution at these magnitudes, where the number of blue samples in the magnitude range 18.5<Ks<19.5 is significantly larger than that of Ks<17.5.

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Journal keyword(s): Cosmology: Observations - Galaxies: Evolution - Galaxies: Formation - Infrared: Galaxies - Surveys

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