L. D. Bradley, R. J. Bouwens, A. Zitrin, R. Smit, D. Coe, H. C. Ford, W. Zheng, G. D. Illingworth, N. Benítez, T. J. Broadhurst
We report the discovery of seven strongly lensed Lyman break galaxy (LBG)
candidates at z~7 detected in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3
(WFC3) imaging of Abell 1703. The brightest candidate, called A1703-zD1, has an
observed (lensed) magnitude of 24.0 AB (26 sigma) in the WFC3/IR F160W band,
making it 0.2 magnitudes brighter than the z_850-dropout candidate recently
reported behind the Bullet Cluster and 0.7 magnitudes brighter than the
previously brightest known z~7.6 galaxy, A1689-zD1. With a cluster
magnification of ~9, this source has an intrinsic magnitude of H_160 = 26.4 AB,
a strong z_850 - J_125 break of 1.7 magnitudes, and a photometric redshift of
z~6.7. Additionally, we find six other bright LBG candidates with H_160 band
magnitudes of 24.9-26.4, photometric redshifts z~6.4 - 8.8, and magnifications
mu~3-40. Stellar population fits to the ACS, WFC3/IR, and \Spitzer/IRAC data
for A1703-zD1 and A1703-zD4 yield stellar masses (0.7 - 3.0) x 10^{9} M_sun,
stellar ages 5-180 Myr, and star-formation rates ~7.8 M_sun/yr, and low
reddening with A_V <= 0.7. The source-plane reconstruction of the exceptionally
bright candidate A1703-zD1 exhibits an extended structure, spanning ~4 kpc in
the z~6.7 source plane, and shows three resolved star-forming knots of radius
r~0.4 kpc.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2035
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