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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Abstract

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

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