| Autor: |
Mortlock, Alice, McLure, Ross J., Bowler, Rebecca A. A., McLeod, Derek J., Marmol-Queralto, Esther, Parsa, Shaghayegh, Dunlop, James S., Bruce, Victoria A. |
| Rok vydání: |
2016 |
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| Druh dokumentu: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.1093/mnras/stw2728 |
| Popis: |
We present the results of a new study of the K-band galaxy luminosity function (KLF) at redshifts z<3.75, based on a nested combination of the UltraVISTA, CANDELS and HUDF surveys. The large dynamic range in luminosity spanned by this new dataset (3-4 dex over the full redshift range) is sufficient to clearly demonstrate for the first time that the faint-end slope of the KLF at z>0.25 is relatively steep (-1.30.25 the evolution of the KLF is remarkably smooth, with little or no evolution evident at faint (M_K>-20.5) or bright magnitudes (M_K<-24.5). Instead, the KLF is seen to evolve rapidly at intermediate magnitudes, with the number density of galaxies at M_K~-23 dropping by a factor of ~5 over the redshift interval 0.25Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS |
| Databáze: |
arXiv |
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