Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aas...185.7406g&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 185th AAS Meeting, #74.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 26, p.1427
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We present galaxy luminosity functions in the K band for a sample of 10 clusters selected from the Einstein EMSS cluster catalog with 0.3 < z < 0.4. X-ray selection of clusters requires the presence of a deep potential well to contain the 10(7K) plasma emitting the X-rays, and thus ensures a sample free from the projection effects that are inherent in optically selecting clusters by galaxy overdensity. Similarly, selection in the K-band ensures a well-defined sample of galaxies. The near-infrared K--corrections and expected luminosity evolution are smooth, independent of Hubble type, and well understood. While the optical flux from a galaxy is dominated by short-lived massive stars and galaxies change on short timescales, the K-band flux is dominated by long-lived near-solar mass stars which are comparable in lifetime and timescales of evolution to the age of the galaxy. Because near-solar mass stars make up the bulk of the galaxy, the absolute K magnitude is a measure of the mass of light matter in a galaxy, and the K-band luminosity function can be considered a mass function. We have obtained 1.2 Mpc times 1.2 Mpc images of 10 clusters to K=18.5, and have measured the luminosity function to M_K=-22.5, (H_0=50km/s/Mpc.) We compare each cluster luminosity function to a composite of all 10 clusters and to measured field galaxy luminosity functions using nonparametric statistical methods. We measure the dependence of the characteristic luminosity (M_K(*) ) upon X-ray luminosity and the blue galaxy fraction of the Butcher-Oemler effect.
Annis James T.
Gardner Jeffrey P.
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