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We measure the luminosity function of QSOs in the redshift range 3.5 < z < 5.2 for the absolute magnitude interval -21 < M_{145} < -28. Suitable criteria are defined to select faint QSOs in the GOODS fields, checking their effectiveness and…

We present number counts, luminosity functions (LFs) and luminosity densities of galaxies obtained using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Sixth Data Release in all SDSS photometric bands. Thanks to the SDSS DR6, galaxy statistics have increased…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Francisco Prada

Using galaxy sample observed by the BATC large-field multi-color sky survey and galaxy data of SDSS in the overlapped fields, we study the dependence of the restframe $r$-band galaxy luminosity function on redshift and on large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Lifang Xia , Xu Zhou , Yanbin Yang , Jun Ma , Zhaoji Jiang

SHELS (Smithsonian Hectospec Lensing Survey) is a dense redshift survey covering a 4 square degree region to a limiting R = 20.6. In the construction of the galaxy catalog and in the acquisition of spectroscopic targets, we paid careful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Margaret J. Geller , Antonaldo Diaferio , Michael J. Kurtz , Ian P. Dell'Antonio , Daniel G. Fabricant

We use the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey to measure the dependence of the bJ-band galaxy luminosity function on large-scale environment, defined by density contrast in spheres of radius 8h-1Mpc, and on spectral type, determined from principal…

We characterize the luminosity functions of galaxies residing in $z\sim0$ groups and clusters over the broadest ranges of luminosity and mass reachable by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Our measurements cover four orders of magnitude in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-27 Ting-Wen Lan , Brice Ménard , Houjun Mo

We present the rest-frame V-band luminosity function (LF) of galaxies at 0.4<z<4.0, measured from a near-infrared selected sample constructed from the NMBS, the FIRES, the FIREWORKS, and the ultra-deep NICMOS and WFC3 observations in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Danilo Marchesini , Mauro Stefanon , Gabriel B. Brammer , Katherine E. Whitaker

[ABRIDGED] We present the first statistical analysis of the complete ESO-Sculptor redshift survey (ESS). The flux-calibrated sample of 617 galaxy spectra with R_c<20.5 is separated into 3 spectral classes (early, intermediate, and late). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Valerie de Lapparent , Gaspar Galaz , Sandro Bardelli , Stephane Arnouts

Luminosity Functions have been obtained for very faint dwarf galaxies in the cores of four rich clusters of galaxies (Abell 2052, 2107, 2199 and 2666). It is found that the luminosity function of dwarf galaxies rises very steeply in these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 R. De Propris , C. J. Pritchet , W. E. Harris , R. D. McClure

The optical luminosity function is a fundamental characterization of the galaxy population. A combination of earlier redshift surveys with two new surveys allows the first accurate determination of the evolution of the luminosity function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew Colless

Standard models for deep galaxy counts are based on luminosity functions (LF) with relatively flat faint end ($\alpha\sim-1.0$). Galaxy counts in the B--band exceed the prediction of such models by a factor of 2 to more than 5, forcing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Saracco , G. Chincarini , A. Iovino

We compute the luminosity function of galaxies in groups. The data consists in two samples of groups of galaxies selected in distance and redshift space comprising a total number of 66 groups. The assignment of galaxies to the groups were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Hernán Muriel , Carlos A. Valotto , Diego G. Lambas

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

The galaxy Luminosity Function (LF) has been estimated in the rest frame B luminosity at 0<z<1.25 and at 1700 {\AA} for 2.5<z<4.5 from deep multicolor surveys in the HDF-N, HDF-S, NTT-DF. The results have been compared with a recent version…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Poli , N. Menci , E. Giallongo , A. Fontana , S. Cristiani , S. D' Odorico

Using Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based U through K- band photometry from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), we measure the evolution of the luminosity function and luminosity density in the rest-frame optical (UBR)…

We discuss the behaviour of the redshift- and real-space correlation functions from the ESO Slice Project (ESP) galaxy redshift survey. xi(s) for the whole survey is positive out to ~80/h Mpc, with a smooth break from a shallow power law.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Guzzo , J. G. Bartlett , A. Cappi

We present the results of a numerical study comparing photometric and physical properties of simulated z=6-9 galaxies to the observations taken by the WFC3 instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. Using cosmological hydrodynamical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jason Jaacks , Jun-Hwan Choi , Kentaro Nagamine , Robert Thompson , Saju Varghese

We measure the redshift-dependent luminosity function and the comoving radial density of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 1 (SDSS DR1). Both measurements indicate that the apparent number density of bright galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jon Loveday

We study the luminosity function of galaxies in Hickson groups using our recent redshift survey of galaxies in and around 17 of these groups. We find that the galaxies in these regions have a luminosity function with M* = -19.5 + 5 log h,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen E. Zepf , Reinaldo R. de Carvalho , Andre L. B. Ribeiro

We present a Bayesian framework to account for the magnification bias from both strong and weak gravitational lensing in estimates of high-redshift galaxy luminosity functions. We illustrate our method by estimating the $z\sim8$ UV…