A test for assessing the goodness-of-fit of luminosity function models to magnitude-redshift data

Details A test for assessing the goodness-of-fit of luminosity function models to magnitude-redshift data A test for assessing the goodness-of-fit of luminosity function models to magnitude-redshift data

Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001mnras.328.1016r&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 328, Issue 4, pp. 1016-1026.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Methods: Statistical, Galaxies: Distances And Redshifts, Galaxies: Luminosity Function, Mass Function, Large-Scale Structure Of Universe

Scientific paper

We propose a test which allows us to check whether a luminosity function model can account for the intrinsic luminosity distribution of a magnitude-redshift sample complete in apparent magnitude. No a priori assumptions are required concerning the redshift-space distribution of the sources, so neither the clustering nor an eventual evolution of the mean number density of the galaxies affects the conclusions of the goodness-of-fit test. The statistical efficiency of the test, if used as a fitting technique for estimating the best-fitting solution of a parametric luminosity function model, is comparable to the efficiency of standard maximum likelihood fitting techniques. The goodness-of-fit test presents however a major improvement compared with fitting techniques in general: the capacity to assess the adequacy of the proposed parametric model to the data. The computational implementation of this new test is straightforward. Its potential is illustrated on the Southern Sky Redshift Survey of da Costa et al.

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