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The redshift distribution derived from complete samples suggests that the majority of blue galaxies dominating the faint field counts are moderately low redshift z<1. Additionally, new results in distant clusters suggest the presence of numerous old red galaxies at z≌1. I question whether these observations are consistent with the first results on the predominantly blue population of very faint galaxies background to z≌0.4 clusters as deduced from lensing studies.
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Ellis, R.S. (1990). The redshift distribution of faint galaxies — Implications for gravitational lensing. In: Mellier, Y., Fort, B., Soucail, G. (eds) Gravitational Lensing. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 360. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0009262
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