The UDF05 Follow-up of the HUDF: II. Constraints on Reionization from z-dropout Galaxies

P. A. Oesch, C. M. Carollo, M. Stiavelli +12

[Abridged] We detect three (plus one less certain) z-dropout sources in two separate fields of our UDF05 HST NICMOS images. These z~7 Lyman-Break Galaxy (LBG) candidates allow us t…