Quantifying high z galaxy selection and visibility with the COSMOPACK tool

Balcells, M.; Cristóbal-Hornillos, D.; Eliche-Moral, C.
Bibliographical reference

Science with the GTC (Eds. José Miguel Rodríguez Espinosa, Francisco Garzón López, and Verónica Melo Martín) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 16, pp. 259-260 (2003) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)

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2003
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6
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Description
We have developed COSMOPACK, a set of tools that transform images of real galaxies to depict their appearance at a given redshift as observed with a given telescope and camera. The transformation includes K-corrections, change of observing band, repixelation to the scale of the observing system, convolution by the seeing, and noise from sky, detector, and dark current. We show two applications of COSMOPACK: 1) the visibility of a number of galaxy types, and 2) the recovery of effective radii and effective surface brightness as a function of redshift in the COSMOS survey.