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Optical and Near-IR Field Luminosity Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Jon Loveday*
Affiliation:
Astronomy & Astrophysics Department, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Abstract

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We present preliminary measurements of the bJ 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 bJ 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 α = −1.2.

Type
Luminosity and surface brightness distributions
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999

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