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Automated Faint Galaxy Counts and Galactic Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

J. Anthony Tyson  and
John F. Jarvis
J. Anthony Tyson
Affiliation:
Bell Labs
John F. Jarvis
Affiliation:
Bell Labs

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Detection and classification of faint images by eye has traditionally encountered systematic errors faintwards of 20th mag on Schmidt plates and 22nd mag on 4-meter plates. Automated classification of Schmidt plate images has pushed the classification limit to 22 mag (Kibblewhite, et al., 1975). Automated detection and classification of faint 4-meter limit plate images has recently led to statistical studies of galaxy numbers and clustering at redshifts where cosmology and galactic evolution dominate over local effects. Here we report on some aspects of the FOCAS (Faint Object Classification and Analysis System) automated classifier (Tyson and Jarvis, 1979) and compare our results of number counts in SA57 with those of Kron, 1979. Differential galaxy counts in six high latitude fields and evidence for galaxy evolution are briefly discussed.

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Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 92: Objects of High Redshift , 1980 , pp. 1 - 8
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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