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The DEEP2 and COMBO-17 surveys are used to study the evolution of the luminosity function of red and blue galaxies to $z \sim 1$. Schechter function fits show that, since $z = 1$, $M^*_B$ dims by $\sim$ 1.3 mag per unit redshift for both…

We study the mean environments of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as a function of rest-frame luminosity and color. Overdensities in galaxy number are estimated in $8 h^{-1} \mathrm{Mpc}$ and $1 h^{-1} \mathrm{Mpc}$ spheres…

Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs) are compact, star-forming galaxies that are rarely observed in the local universe but abundant at z=1. This increase in LCBG number density over cosmic lookback time roughly follows the increase in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 L. R. Hunt , D. J. Pisano , S. M. Crawford , M. A. Bershady , G. D. Wirth

We measure the bivariate luminosity function (BLF) of galaxy pairs and use it to probe and characterize the galaxy-galaxy interaction between pair members. The galaxy pair sample is selected from the main galaxy sample of Sloan Digital Sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 Shuai Feng , Shi-Yin Shen , Fang-Ting Yuan , A-Li Luo , Jian-Nan Zhang , Meng-Xin Wang , Xia Wang , Yin-Bi Li , Wen Hou , Yan-Xin Guo , Fang Zuo

We derive NUV luminosity functions for 6471 NUV detected galaxies in 28 $0.02 < z < 0.08$ clusters and consider their dependence on cluster properties. We consider optically red and blue galaxies and explore how their NUV LFs vary in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 Roberto De Propris , Malcolm Bremer , Steven Phillipps

We use very deep UGRI multi-field imaging obtained at the Keck telescope to study the evolution of the rest-frame 1700A galaxy luminosity function as the Universe doubles its age from z~4 to z~2. The depth of our imaging allows us to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcin Sawicki , David Thompson

We compile one of the largest ever samples to probe the X-ray normal galaxy luminosity function and its evolution with cosmic time. In particular, we select 207 galaxies (106 late and 101 early-type systems) from the Chandra Deep Field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-30 I. Georgantopoulos , P. Tzanavaris

The break-by-one gamma distribution has a probability density function resembling the Schechter function, but with the small-argument behavior modified so it is normalizable in commonly arising cases where the Schechter function is not. Its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-31 Thomas J. Loredo

We place a limit on the logarithmic slope of the luminous quasar luminosity function at z~6 of beta>-3.0 (90%) using gravitational lensing constraints to build on the limit of beta>-3.3 (90%) derived from an analysis of the luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stuart Wyithe

Photometric redshifts are used to determine the rest frame luminosity function (LF) of both early-type and late-type galaxies to M_B ~ -17.6 for the cluster Cl1601+42 at z = 0.54. The total LF shows a steep faint-end slope alpha \~ -1.4,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tomas Dahlen , Claes Fransson , Magnus Naeslund

Near-infrared surveys have now determined the luminosity functions of galaxies at 6<z<9 to impressive precision and identified a number of candidates at even earlier times. Here we develop a simple analytic model to describe these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 Steven Furlanetto , Jordan Mirocha , Richard Mebane , Guochao Sun

We have measured the 3.6 micron cluster luminosity function (LF) using a sample of 123 galaxy clusters selected from the 4 degree^2 Spitzer First Look Survey (FLS). The clusters were selected on the basis of their R - 3.6 micron colors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adam Muzzin , Gillian Wilson , Mark Lacy

We present deep photometry obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in a field in Baade's Window in the Galactic bulge. We derive a luminosity function down to I ~ 24.3, or V ~ 27.5, corresponding to M ~ 0.3 Msun. The luminosity…

We investigated the optical properties of 7 clusters of galaxies observed in three colors over the range of absolute magnitudes -24 < M < -12. Our aim is to estimate the Luminosity Function and the total cluster luminosity of our sample in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Parolin , E. Molinari , G. Chincarini

The luminosity function for quasars (QSOs) is usually fitted by a Schechter function. The dependence of the number of quasars on the redshift, both in the low and high luminosity regions, requires the inclusion of a lower and upper boundary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 L. Zaninetti

We carried out the largest ($>3.5\times10^5$ Mpc$^3$, 26 deg$^2$) H$\alpha$ narrow band survey to date at $z\sim0.2$ in the SA22, W2 and XMMLSS extragalactic fields. Our survey covers a large enough volume to overcome cosmic variance and to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-19 Andra Stroe , David Sobral

We produce and analyse u-band luminosity functions for the red and blue populations of galaxies using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) u-band Galaxy Survey (uGS) and Deep Evolutionary Exploratory Probe 2 (DEEP2) survey. From a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Matthew Prescott , Ivan K. Baldry , Phil A. James

The determination of the luminosity function (LF) in gamma ray bursts (GRBs) depends on the adopted cosmology, each one characterized by its corresponding luminosity distance. Here we analyse three cosmologies: the standard cosmology, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-08 L. Zaninetti

We present a catalog of spectro-photometric redshifts for 1308 galaxies from the GRism ACS Program for Extragalactic Science (GRAPES) observations with the Hubble Space Telescope. These low-resolution spectra between 6000 A and 9500 A are…