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Are Hubble Deep Field Galaxy Counts Whole Numbers?

Are Hubble Deep Field Galaxy Counts Whole Numbers?

The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) offers the best view to date of the optical sky at faint magnitudes and small angular scales. Early reports suggested that faint source counts continue to rise to the completeness limit of the data, which implies a very large number of galaxies. In this Letter, …