Astronomical luminosity functions.

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Dec 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995pabei..13..343t&link_type=abstract

Prog. Astron., Vol. 13, No. 4, p. 343 - 358

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Luminosity Function: Faint Stars, Luminosity Function: Active Galaxies, Luminosity Function: White Dwarfs

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This review has its origins in a conference held in January, 1995, honoring the 65th birthday of Maarten Schmidt. The important kinds of objects whose luminosity functions are useful to study include the very faintest stars, gamma-ray bursters, bright quasars and other active galaxies, and sources of non-visible radiation. Particularly surprising are the rarity of the faintest stars and the extraordinarily large numbers of very faint galaxies. An important unsettled question is whether we understand, or ever can understand, the intrinsic, astrophysical properties of galaxies, clusters, radio and X-ray sources, and their evolution well enough to use them as probes of cosmology and the large scale structure parameters of the universe.

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