Optical and Near-IR Field Luminosity Functions

1998/10/08 by Jon Loveday, Loveday, Jon
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9810131

8 pages, 5 embedded figures. To appear in proceedings of IAU colloquium 171, eds. J.I. Davies, C. Impey & S. Phillipps

arxiv created 1998/10/08 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We present preliminary measurements of the b_J and K-band luminosity functions (LFs) of field galaxies obtained from optical and K-band imaging of a sample of galaxies selected from the Stromlo-APM Redshift Survey. The b_J LF is consistent with that previously published from photographic data. The K-band LF has been estimated over a range of 12 magnitudes and is reasonably well fit by a Schechter function with faint-end slope alpha = -1.2.

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