Cosmic Star Formation History to z=1 from a Narrow Emission Line Selected Tunable Filter Survey

Abstract

We report the results of a deep 3D imaging survey of the Hubble Deep Field North using the Taurus Tunable Filter and the William Herschel Telescope. This survey was designed to search for new line emitting populations of objects missed by other techniques and to measure the cosmic star-formation rate density from a line-selected survey. We observed in three contiguous sequences of narrow band slices in the 7100, 8100 and 9100A regions of the spectrum, corresponding to a cosmological volume of up to 1000 Mpc^3 at z=1, down to a flux limit of 2x 10^-17 ergs cm^-2 s^-1. The survey is deep enough to be highly complete for low line luminosity galaxies. Cross-matching with existing spectroscopy in the field results in a small line-luminosity limited sample, with very highly redshift identification completeness containing seven [OII], Hbeta and Halpha emitters over the redshift range 0.3 - 0.9. Treating this as a direct star-formation rate selected sample we estimate the star-formation history of the Universe to z=1. We find no evidence for any new population of line emitting objects contributing significantly to the cosmological star-formation rate density. Rather from our complete narrow-band sample we find the star-formation history is consistent with earlier estimates from broad-band imaging surveys and other less deep line-selected surveys.

arXiv comment12 pages, 3 figures. ApJ in press (Dec 2004)

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