The Phoenix Deep Survey: the star formation rates and the stellar masses of extremely red objects

Georgakakis, A; Hopkins, Andrew M; Sullivan, M; Mobasher, Bahram; Cram, Lawrence; Afonso, J

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The Phoenix Deep Survey: the star formation rates and the stellar masses of extremely red objects

Date

2006

Authors

Georgakakis, A

Hopkins, Andrew M

Sullivan, M

Mobasher, Bahram

Cram, Lawrence

Afonso, J

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

ABSTRACT We estimate the star formation rates and the stellar masses of the extremely red objects (EROs) detected in a ≈180 arcmin2Ks-band survey (Ks ≈ 20 mag). This sample is complemented by sensitive 1.4-GHz radio observations (12 μJy 1σ rms) and