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Published September 20, 2014 | Submitted + Published
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The UV Continuum of z > 1 Star-forming Galaxies in the Hubble Ultraviolet Ultradeep Field

Abstract

We estimate the UV continuum slope, β, for 923 galaxies in the range 1 < z < 8 in the Hubble Ultradeep Field (HUDF). These data include 460 galaxies at 1 < z < 2 down to an absolute magnitude M_UV= -14(~0.006, L^(*)(_z=1); 0.02 L^*_{z=0), comparable to dwarf galaxies in the local universe. We combine deep HST/UVIS photometry in F225W, F275W, F336W wavebands (UVUDF) with recent data from HST/WFC3/IR (HUDF12). Galaxies in the range 1 < z < 2 are significantly bluer than local dwarf galaxies. We find their mean (median) values <β> = – 1.382(– 1.830) ± 0.002 (random) ± 0.1 (systematic). We find comparable scatter in β (standard deviation = 0.43) to local dwarf galaxies and 30% larger scatter than z > 2 galaxies. We study the trends of β with redshift and absolute magnitude for binned sub-samples and find a modest color-magnitude relation, dβ/dM = –0.11 ± 0.01, and no evolution in dβ/dM with redshift. A modest increase in dust reddening with redshift and luminosity, ΔE(B – V) ~ 0.1, and a comparable increase in the dispersion of dust reddening at z < 2, appears likely to explain the observed trends. At z > 2, we find trends that are consistent with previous works; combining our data with the literature in the range 1 < z < 8, we find a color evolution with redshift, dβ/dz = –0.09 ± 0.01 for low luminosity (0.05 L^(*)_(z=3), and dβ/dz = –0.06 ± 0.01 for medium luminosity (0.25 $L^(*)_(z=3) galaxies.

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© 2014 American Astronomical Society. Received 2014 March 31; accepted 2014 July 25; published 2014 September 2. The authors wish to thank the anonymous referee for comments that greatly improved this manuscript. Support for HST Program GO-12534was provided byNASAthrough grants from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-2655. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant no. 1055919.

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