Galaxies at z>7: Probing galaxy formation with the new generation of NIR Instruments

Pelló, R.; Richard, J.; Schaerer, D.; Le Borgne, J.-F.; Kneib, J.-P.; Hempel, A.
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First Light Science with the GTC (Eds. R. Guzmán, C. Packham, J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa, & S. Torres-Peimbert) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 29, pp. 132-134 (2007) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)

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2007
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We present the results obtained from our deep survey of lensing clusters aimed at constraining the abundance of star-forming galaxies at z ˜ 6-11. Lensing magnification improves the search efficiency and subsequent spectroscopic studies with the new generation of NIR multi-object spectrographs (e.g. EMIR/GTC). The UV Luminosity Function derived from the photometric sample of candidates does not show the turnover observed at z ˜ 6-7 by Bouwens et al. (2005) towards the bright end. For this reason, the SFR density is consistent with a constant value up to z ˜ 10. This systematic trend with respect to blank fields could be due to field-to-field variance, positive magnification bias from mid-z EROs, and/or residual contamination by spurious sources.