Photometry + Spectroscopy in HDF + Flanking Fields

Our wide-field survey provides uniform coverage of a 61.8arcmin^2^ area to a depth equivalent to K=20.1 at 5{sigma}. We have also imaged the Hubble Deep Field in HK', providing uniform coverage of a 7.8arcmin^2^ area to a depth equivalent to K=21.2 at 5{sigma}.

Using these data in combination with new deep University of Hawaii 8K V- and I-imaging obtained on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, we find only a small population of objects with colors redder than an equivalent I-K=4mag, the color expected for an evolved elliptical galaxy at z>1. We infer that only a fraction of the local field elliptical galaxy population with M_K_<-23.4 could have formed in single bursts at high redshift.