Star Forming Galaxies in the ‘Redshift Desert’

Abstract

We describe results of optical and near-IR observations of a large spectroscopic sample of star-forming galaxies photometrically-selected to lie in the redshift range $1.4 \lesssim z \lesssim 2.5$, often called the “redshift desert” because of historical difficulty in obtaining spectroscopic redshifts in this range. We show that the former “redshift desert” is now very much open to observation.

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