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In Pursuit of High Redshift Galaxies

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From the Realm of the Nebulae to Populations of Galaxies

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Some contributions in Chap. 1 have highlighted the impact of the discovery in the 1960s of a handful of radio galaxies and Quasars in the redshift range z ∼ 0.2–0.4. About 40 years later, at the end of the twentieth Century, the systematic exploration of galaxies reached z ∼ 1–3. The combination of HST deep imaging and the coming into operation of the 8–10 m class telescopes with their spectroscopic capabilities, move ahead the limits. At the same time, astronomers greatly improved their strategies to hunt high-redshift galaxies. Today, it is not infrequent the spectroscopic confirmation of galaxies at z ∼ 7–8, pushing the detection limits more or less to the end of the re-ionization era. The gauntlet to observe the so called “first galaxies”, i.e. those assembling during the first billion years of the cosmic time, is throw down.

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  1. INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo Osservatorio 5, I35122, Padova, Italy

    Roberto Rampazzo, Simone Zaggia & Bianca M. Poggianti

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

    Mauro D’Onofrio

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    Stanislav George Djorgovski

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    Roberto Rampazzo

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Rampazzo, R. et al. (2016). In Pursuit of High Redshift Galaxies. In: D'Onofrio, M., Rampazzo, R., Zaggia, S. (eds) From the Realm of the Nebulae to Populations of Galaxies. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 435. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31006-0_6

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