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Some results from a search for forming galaxies are described. The search uses a five color (U′BVIK) deep survey to look for galaxies with the sharp breaks and the nearly flat spectrum (f v ) regions of wavelength space which should be present in high-redshift young star-forming galaxies. Such a population with a flat spectrum in the BVI bands is found at I magnitudes fainter than 23. Based on the presence of breaks in the U′ band most of the members lie in the range 2.8 < z < 3.6. Model-invariant analysis suggests that this population could easily be responsible for almost all of the early star formation in massive galaxies.
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Cowie, L.L. (1989). A Multicolor Search for Forming Galaxies. In: Frenk, C.S., Ellis, R.S., Shanks, T., Heavens, A.F., Peacock, J.A. (eds) The Epoch of Galaxy Formation. NATO ASI Series, vol 264. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0919-9_3
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