Evolution of Galaxy Luminosity Function and Luminosity Function by Density Environment at 0.03<z<0.5

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2006-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607407v1

Astrophys.J.652:249-258,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 9 figures, accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/507698

Using galaxy sample observed by the BATC large-field multi-color sky survey and galaxy data of SDSS in the overlapped fields, we study the dependence of the restframe $r$-band galaxy luminosity function on redshift and on large-scale environment. The large-scale environment is defined by isodensity contour with density contrast \delta\rho/\rho. The data set is a composite sample of 69,671 galaxies with redshifts 0.03 < z < 0.5 and r < 21.5 mag. The redshifts are composed by three parts: 1) spectroscopic redshifts in SDSS for local and most luminous galaxies; 2) 20-color photometric redshifts derived from BATC and SDSS; 3) 5-color photometric redshifts in SDSS. We find that the faint-end slope \alpha steepens slightly from -1.21 at z ~ 0.06 to -1.35 at z ~ 0.4, which is the natural consequence of the hierarchical formation of galaxies. The luminosity function also differs with different environments. The value of \alpha changes from -1.21 at underdense regions to -1.37 at overdense regions and the corresponding M* brightens from -22.26 to -22.64. This suggests that the fraction of faint galaxies is larger in high density regions than in low density regions.

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