The Ultraviolet Luminosity Function of GALEX Galaxies at Photometric Redshifts Between 0.07 and 0.25
T. Budavari
(1)
,
Alex Szalay
(1)
,
S. Charlot
(2, 3)
,
Mark Seibert
(4)
,
Ted Wyder
(4)
,
S. Arnouts
(5)
,
T. A. Barlow
(4)
,
L. Bianchi
(6)
,
Y. -I. Byun
(7)
,
José Donas
(5)
,
K. Forster
(4)
,
P. G. Friedman
(4)
,
T. M. Heckman
(1)
,
P. N. Jelinsky
(8)
,
Y. -W. Lee
(7)
,
B. F. Madore
(2)
,
R. F. Malina
(5)
,
D. C. Martin
(4)
,
B. Milliard
(5)
,
P. Morrissey
(4)
,
Susan Gale Neff
(9)
,
Robert Michael Rich
(1)
,
David Schiminovich
(4)
,
O. H. W. Siegmund
(8)
,
Todd Small
(4)
,
B. Welsh
(8)
,
M. Treyer
(5)
1
Department of Physics and Astronomy [Baltimore]
2 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
3 MPA - Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
4 CALTECH - California Institute of Technology
5 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
6 Center for Astrophysical Sciences [Baltimore]
7 Center for Space Astrophysics [Seoul]
8 SSL - Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley]
9 Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics
2 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
3 MPA - Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
4 CALTECH - California Institute of Technology
5 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
6 Center for Astrophysical Sciences [Baltimore]
7 Center for Space Astrophysics [Seoul]
8 SSL - Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley]
9 Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics
S. Charlot
- Function : Author
- PersonId : 179541
- IdHAL : scharlot
- ORCID : 0000-0003-3458-2275
- IdRef : 09365104X
Abstract
We present measurements of the UV galaxy luminosity function and the evolution of luminosity density from GALEX observations matched to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We analyze galaxies in the Medium Imaging Survey overlapping the SDSS DR1 with a total coverage of 44 deg^2. Using the combined GALEX+SDSS photometry, we compute photometric redshifts and study the LF in three redshift shells between z=0.07 and 0.25. The Schechter function fits indicate that the faint-end slope alpha is consistent with -1.1 at all redshifts but the characteristic UV luminosity M* brightens by 0.2 mag from z=0.07 to 0.25. In the lowest redshift bin, early and late type galaxies are studied separately and we confirm that red galaxies tend to be brighter and have a shallower slope alpha than blue ones. The derived luminosity densities are consistent with other GALEX results based on a local spectroscopic sample from 2dF and the evolution follows the trend reported by deeper studies.