The rapid transition from star-formation to AGN dominated rest-frame UV
  light at z ~ 4
  With the advent of deep optical-to-near-infrared extragalactic imaging on the
degree scale, samples of high-redshift sources are being selected that contain
both bright star-forming (SF) galaxies and faint active galactic nuclei (AGN).
In this study we investigate the transition between SF and AGN-dominated
systems at $z \simeq 4$ in the rest-frame UV. We find a rapid transition to
AGN-dominated sources bright-ward of $M_{\rm UV} \simeq -23.2$. The effect is
observed in the rest-frame UV morphology and size-luminosity relation, where
extended clumpy systems become point-source dominated, and also in the
available spectra for the sample. These results allow us to derive the
rest-frame UV luminosity function for the SF and AGN-dominated sub-samples. We
find the SF-dominated LF is best fit with a double-power law, with a lensed
Schechter function being unable to explain the existence of extremely luminous
SF galaxies at $M_{\rm UV} \simeq -23.5$. If we identify AGN-dominated sources
according to a point-source morphology criterion we recover the relatively flat
faint-end slope of the AGN LF determined in previous studies. If we instead
separate the LF according to the current spectroscopic AGN fraction, we find a
steeper faint-end slope of $\alpha = -1.83 \pm 0.11$. Using a simple model to
predict the rest-frame AGN LF from the $z = 4 $ galaxy LF we find that the
increasing impact of host galaxy light on the measured morphology of faint AGN
can explain our observations.
