- Simon Lilly
In this session, I thought we would review what we have learnt
about the faint (observed) galaxy population at high redshifts.
My own emphasis would be on what we have learnt from the various
"systematic" surveys with spectroscopic information, planning
to touch on (either myself or by hearing from other participants)
(a) CFRS/LDSS/HDS/Keck redshift surveys (broadly speaking extending
to z ~ 1)
(b) Cowie's 1 < z < 1.6 galaxies.
(c) Steidel-Dickinson absorbers 1 < z < 2.
(d) The Steidel et al population at z > 3.
There is then also the more speculative aspect of what we are looking
at at the fainter levels (HDF, faint clustering etc etc.). I would rely
more on the thoughts of others here, but would be happy to "set up"
some of the issues in my own talk.
(e) Deepest number counts
(f) Deepest clustering
(g) Deepest morphologies
In each of these (a)-(d) I think we should look at synthesizing all the
available information (i.e. the LF, HST-morphologies, clustering,
kinematics etc.). The questions that we would be trying to address are:
(a) Which galaxy populations are observably evolving over cosmic time,
at various magnitude levels?
(b) What is the nature of this evolution - can it be understood
in conventional scenarios?
(c) What is the relationship of "normal" and "dwarf" galaxies
at different epochs