The Galaxy Luminosity Function at z < 0.05: Dependence on Morphology

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1998-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9805218v1

Astrophys.J. 503 (1998) 617

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

35 pages + 9 figures + 4 tables. Latex 2.09 with AASTex v. 4.0, to appear in the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/306011

We investigate the dependence of the local galaxy luminosity function on morphology using 5,404 galaxies from the recently enlarged Second Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS2). Over the range -22 \le M_B \le -14 ($H_0 = 100 km/s/Mpc), the luminosity function of early-type galaxies is well fitted by a Schechter function with parameters M_*=-19.37^{+0.10}_{-0.11}, alpha=-1.00^{+0.09}_{-0.09} and phi_*=0.0044 +/- 0.0008 Mpc^{-3}. The spiral luminosity function is very similar and is well fitted by the parameters M_*=-19.43^{+0.08}_{-0.08}, alpha=-1.11^{+0.07}_{-0.06} and phi_*=0.0080 +/- 0.0014 Mpc^{-3} over the same range in absolute magnitude. The flat faint end of the early-type luminosity function is consistent with earlier measurements from the CfA Redshift Survey (Marzke et al. 1994) but is significantly steeper than the slope measured in the Stromlo-APM survey (Loveday et al. 1992). Combined with the increased normalization of the overall LF measured from intermediate redshift surveys, the flat faint-end slope of the E/S0 LF produces no-evolution models which reproduce the deep HST counts of early-type galaxies remarkably well. However, the observed normalization of the SSRS2 LF is consistent with the low value measured in other local redshift surveys. The cause of this low-redshift anomaly remains unknown. The luminosity function of irregular and peculiar galaxies in the SSRS2 is very steep: M_*=-19.78^{+0.40}_{-0.50}, alpha=-1.81^{+0.24}_{-0.24} and phi_*=0.0002 +/- 0.00008 Mpc^{-3}. The steep slope is consistent with the LFs measured for Sm-Im galaxies in the CfA survey, UV-selected galaxies (Treyer et al. 1997), star-forming field galaxies (Bromley et al. 1997) and the bluest galaxies in the SSRS2 (Marzke & da Costa 1997).

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