The galaxy optical luminosity function from the AGN and galaxy evolution survey

Richard J. Cool; Daniel J. Eisenstein; Christopher S. Kochanek; Michael J.I. Brown; Nelson Caldwell; Arjun Dey; William R. Forman; Ryan C. Hickox; Buell T. Jannuzi; Christine Jones; John Moustakas; Stephen S. Murray

doi:10.1088/0004-637X/748/1/10

The galaxy optical luminosity function from the AGN and galaxy evolution survey

Richard J. Cool, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Christopher S. Kochanek, Michael J.I. Brown, Nelson Caldwell, Arjun Dey, William R. Forman, Ryan C. Hickox, Buell T. Jannuzi, Christine Jones, John Moustakas, Stephen S. Murray

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We present the galaxy optical luminosity function for the redshift range 0.05 < z < 0.75 from the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey, a spectroscopic survey of 7.6 deg² in the Boötes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey. Our statistical sample is composed of 12,473 galaxies with known redshifts down to I = 20.4 (AB). Our results at low redshift are consistent with those from Sloan Digital Sky Survey; at higher redshift, we find strong evidence for evolution in the luminosity function, including differential evolution between blue and red galaxies. We find that the luminosity density evolves as (1 + z)^{(0.54 0.64)} for red galaxies and (1 + z)^{(1.64 0.39)} for blue galaxies.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	10
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	748
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/748/1/10
State	Published - Mar 20 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

galaxies: luminosity function, mass function
galaxies: statistics

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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