AST 465 - Homework 3
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Tuesday Nov 8 2011
Due: Tuesday Nov 15
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Read the following two papers:
- "Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Population of Normal Star-forming
   Galaxies at Redshifts z>3"
  Steidel et al, 1996, ApJ, 462, L17
- "The evolution of the stellar mass function of galaxies from z=4.."
 Marchesini et al, 2009, ApJ, 701, 1765

a) Summarize each paper in less than 100 words.
b) Discuss and contrast the two papers (about half a page of text).