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We examine a sample of low redshift (10 < d < 150 Mpc) galaxies including galaxies with r-band absolute magnitudes as faint as -12.5 (for h=1), selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 2 (SDSS). The sample is unique in…

A first new luminosity functions of galaxies can be built starting from a left truncated beta probability density function, which is characterized by four parameters. In the astrophysical conversion, the number of parameters increases by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-12 L. Zaninetti

I review recent measurements of the faint end of the galaxy luminosity function in galaxy clusters. Evidence is presented that the luminosity function of galaxies in the central parts of clusters is remarkably constant between clusters and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neil Trentham

The WISE satellite surveyed the entire sky multiple times in four infrared wavelengths (3.4, 4.6, 12, and $22\,\mu$m; Wright et al. 2010). The unprecedented combination of coverage area and depth gives us the opportunity to measure the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 S. E. Lake , E. L. Wright , R. J. Assef , T. H. Jarrett , S. Petty , S. A. Stanford , D. Stern , C. -W. Tsai

Using the empirical relations between the central galaxy luminosity and the halo mass, and between the total galaxy luminosity in a halo and the halo mass, we construct the galaxy luminosity function (LF). To the luminosity of the central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Asantha Cooray , Milos Milosavljevic

We review selected measurements of the galaxy luminosity function including the global field, the local group, the local sphere, nearby clusters (Virgo, Coma and Fornax) and clusters in general. We conclude that the overall cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Simon P. Driver , Roberto De Propris

We investigate the dependence of the local galaxy luminosity function on morphology using 5,404 galaxies from the recently enlarged Second Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS2). Over the range -22 \le M_B \le -14 ($H_0 = 100 km/s/Mpc), the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. O. Marzke , L. N. da Costa , P. S. Pellegrini , C. N. A. Willmer , M. J. Geller

Despite the great potential of the U-band galaxy luminosity function (GLF) to constrain the history of star formation in clusters, to clarify the question of variations of the GLF across filter bands, to provide a baseline for comparisons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Christlein , Daniel H. McIntosh , Ann I. Zabludoff

We calculate the optical bj luminosity function of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) for different subsets defined by their spectral properties. These spectrally selected subsets are defined using a new parameter, eta, which is a…

Luminosity function of cluster galaxies provides a fundamental constraint on galaxy evolution in cluster environments. By using the bright member galaxies of a large sample of rich clusters identified from Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Z. L. Wen , J. L. Han

We study H-alpha, far- and near-ultraviolet luminosity functions (LF) of the sample of 795 luminous compact star-forming galaxies with z<0.65. The parameters of optimal functions for LFs are obtained using the maximum likelihood method and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 S. L. Parnovsky , I. Y. Izotova

We measure the faint end slope of the galaxy luminosity function (LF) for cluster galaxies at 1<z<1.5 using Spitzer IRAC data. We investigate whether this slope, alpha, differs from that of the field LF at these redshifts, and with the…

We present a new maximum likelihood method for the calculation of galaxy luminosity functions from multi-band photometric surveys without spectroscopic data. The method evaluates the likelihood of a trial luminosity function by directly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Daniel Christlein , Eric Gawiser , Danilo Marchesini , Nelson Padilla

(Abridged) The Sloan Digital Sky Survey now extends over a large enough region that galaxies in low density environments can be detected. Rojas et al. have developed a technique to extract more than 1000 void galaxies with delta rho/rho <…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fiona Hoyle , Randall R. Rojas , Michael S. Vogeley , John Brinkmann

We have measured the 3.6 micron luminosity and mass evolution of about 1000 galaxies in 32 clusters at 0.2<z<1.25 with a special attention to methodological issues, as emphasized in this proceeding contribution. We find that the luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Andreon

We present the composite luminosity function of a sample of 17 low-redshift galaxy clusters. Our luminosity functions have been measured for an inner region ($r \leq r_{200}$) and an outer region ($r_{200} \leq r \leq 2r_{200}$) centred on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wayne A. Barkhouse , H. K. C. Yee , Omar Lopez-Cruz

In a recent paper Loveday et al. (1992) have presented new results on the luminosity function for a sample of galaxies with $b_J \le 17.15$. After having morphologically classified each galaxy (early--type, late--type, merged or uncertain),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Elena Zucca , Lucia Pozzetti , Giovanni Zamorani

We have measured the 3.6 micron luminosity evolution of about 1000 galaxies in 32 clusters at 0.2<z<1.25, without any a priori assumption about luminosity evolution, i.e. in a logically rigorous way. We find that the luminosity of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Andreon

We combine the 2MASS extended source catalogue and the 2dFGRS to produce an IR selected galaxy catalogue with 17,173 measured redshifts. We use this extensive dataset to estimate the J and K-band galaxy luminosity functions. The LFs are…

CFHTLS optical photometry has been used to study the galaxy luminosity functions of 14 X-ray selected clusters from the XMM-LSS survey. These are mostly groups and poor clusters, with masses (M_{500}) in the range 0.6 to 19x10 ^{13} M_solar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Abdulmonem Alshino , Habib Khosroshahi , Trevor Ponman , Jon Willis , Marguerite Pierre , Florian Pacaud , Graham P. Smith