The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey - II. The Field Galaxy Luminosity Function

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1997-02-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9702216v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 1 Latex file for text, 1 style file, 1 epsf file, 7 Postscript files for Figures. Submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01137.x

We present the results for the galaxy luminosity function as estimated from the Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey. This survey is magnitude limited to bj = 17, contains 2500 galaxies sampled at a rate of one in three and surveys a 4 x 10^6 Mpc^3 volume of space. The maximum likelihood parameters for a standard Schechter luminosity function are estimated to be M*bj = -19.72+-0.09, alpha = -1.14+-0.08 and phi* = (1.2 +- 0.2) x 10^-2 ( h^3Mpc^-3). A comparison with galaxy luminosity functions from other redshift surveys shows good agreement and the shape of the luminosity function now appears well-defined down to Mbj = -17. There are some discrepancies between the different surveys for galaxies fainter than this absolute magnitude. However, our estimate agrees well with that from the APM-Stromlo Galaxy Redshift Survey and we measure a fairly flat faint end slope.

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