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We report new improved photometric redshifts of 1048 galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF). A standard chi^2 minimizing method is applied to seven-color UBVIJHK photometry by Fernandez-Soto, Lanzetta, & Yahil (1999). We use 187 template SEDs representing a wide variety of morphology and age of observed galaxies based on a population synthesis model by Kodama & Arimoto (1997). We introduce two new recipes. First, the amount of the internal absorption is changed as a free parameter in the range of E(B-V)=0.0 to 0.5 with an interval of 0.1. Second, the absorption due to intergalactic HI clouds is also changed by a factor of 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 around the opacity given by Madau (1995). The total number of template SEDs is thus 187x6x3=3,366, except for the redshift grid. The dispersion sigma_z of our photometric redshifts with respect to spectroscopic redshifts is sigma_z=0.08 and 0.24 for z<2 and z>2, respectively, which are smaller than the corresponding values (sigma_z=0.09 and 0.45) by Fernandez-Soto et al. Improvement is significant, especially in z>2. This is due to smaller systematic errors which are largely reduced mainly by including three opacities due to intergalactic HI clo

Author

Furusawa, Hisanori; Shimasaku, Kazuhiro; Doi, Mamoru; Okamura, Sadanori

Published

1999

Language

EN