Abstract

The nature of the faint blue objects seen in deep images of the sky has been a source of great puzzlement. Their high surface density and weak clustering argues against their being either the progenitors or the merging components of the present-day bright galaxies. The faint blue counts are interpreted as being due to dwarf elliptical galaxies undergoing their initial starburst at z∼1. The starburst epoch is determined by the decline in the UV background, which results in the stably confined photoionized gas in dark haloes of M ∼ 10 9 M ⊙ being able to cool and settle in the centre of the haloes and undergo star formation

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