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I. K. Baldry K. Glazebrook S. P. Driver 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,388(3):945-959
A comparison between published field galaxy stellar mass functions (GSMFs) shows that the cosmic stellar mass density is in the range 4–8 per cent of the baryon density (assuming Ωb = 0.045 ). There remain significant sources of uncertainty for the dust correction and underlying stellar mass-to-light ratio even assuming a reasonable universal stellar initial mass function. We determine the z < 0.05 GSMF using the New York University Value-Added Galaxy Catalog sample of 49 968 galaxies derived from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and various estimates of stellar mass. The GSMF shows clear evidence for a low-mass upturn and is fitted with a double Schechter function that has α2 ≃−1.6 . At masses below ∼108.5 M⊙ , the GSMF may be significantly incomplete because of missing low-surface-brightness galaxies. One interpretation of the stellar mass–metallicity relation is that it is primarily caused by a lower fraction of available baryons converted to stars in low-mass galaxies. Using this principle, we determine a simple relationship between baryonic mass and stellar mass and present an 'implied baryonic mass function'. This function has a faint-end slope, α2 ≃−1.9 . Thus, we find evidence that the slope of the low-mass end of the galaxy mass function could plausibly be as steep as the halo mass function. We illustrate the relationship between halo baryonic mass function → galaxy baryonic mass function → GSMF. This demonstrates the requirement for peak galaxy formation efficiency at baryonic masses ∼1011 M⊙ corresponding to a minimum in feedback effects. The baryonic-infall efficiency may have levelled off at lower masses. 相似文献
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Metcalfe Ratcliffe Shanks & Fong 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,294(1):147-164
Using the PDS microdensitometer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, we have acquired U , B , V , R and I surface photometry from UK Schmidt photographic plates for all the galaxies with measured redshifts in the Durham–AAT redshift survey. By comparison with CCD photometry we show that such precision photographic photometry of galaxies off IIIa emulsions is capable of an accuracy as good as a few hundredths of a magnitude. We discuss the colour-related properties of these galaxies, and derive luminosity functions in each waveband. We show that when divided by colour, the faint-end slope of the luminosity function of the bluer galaxies is significantly steeper than that for the redder ones. 相似文献
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Gabriella De Lucia Bianca M. Poggianti Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca Simon D. M. White Dennis Zaritsky Douglas Clowe Claire Halliday Pascale Jablonka Anja von der Linden Bo Milvang-Jensen Roser Pelló Gregory Rudnick Roberto P. Saglia Luc Simard 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,374(3):809-822
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Martin A. Zwaan Frank H. Briggs David Sprayberry 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,327(4):1249-1259
We measure the B -band optical luminosity function (LF) for galaxies selected in a blind H i survey. The total LF of the H i selected sample is flat, with Schechter parameters and , in good agreement with LFs of optically selected late-type galaxies. Bivariate distribution functions of several galaxy parameters show that the H i density in the local Universe is more widely spread over galaxies of different size, central surface brightness and luminosity than the optical luminosity density is. The number density of very low surface brightness (LSB ) (>24.0 mag arcsec−2 ) gas-rich galaxies is considerably lower than that found in optical surveys designed to detect dim galaxies. This suggests that only a part of the population of LSB galaxies is gas-rich and that the rest must be gas-poor. However, we show that this gas-poor population must be cosmologically insignificant in baryon content. The contribution of gas-rich LSB galaxies (>23.0 mag arcsec−2 ) to the local cosmological gas and luminosity density is modest and per cent respectively); their contribution to Ωmatter is not well-determined, but probably <11 per cent. These values are in excellent agreement with the low redshift results from the Hubble Deep Field. 相似文献
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Matthew Prescott Ivan K. Baldry Phil A. James 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,397(1):90-102
We produce and analyse u -band ( λ≈ 355 nm) luminosity functions (LFs) for the red and blue populations of galaxies using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) u -band Galaxy Survey ( u GS) and Deep Evolutionary Exploratory Probe 2 (DEEP2) survey. From a spectroscopic sample of 41 575 SDSS u GS galaxies and 24 561 DEEP2 galaxies, we produce colour magnitude diagrams and make use of the colour bimodality of galaxies to separate red and blue populations. LFs for eight redshift slices in the range 0.01 < z < 1.2 are determined using the 1/ V max method and fitted with Schechter functions showing that there is significant evolution in M * , with a brightening of 1.4 mag for the combined population. The integration of the Schechter functions yields the evolution in the u -band luminosity density (LD) out to z ∼ 1 . By parametrizing the evolution as ρ∝ (1 + z )β , we find that β= 1.36 ± 0.2 for the combined populations and β= 2.09 ± 0.2 for the blue population. By removing the contribution of the old stellar population to the u -band LD and correcting for dust attenuation, we estimate the evolution in the star formation rate (SFR) of the Universe to be βSFR = 2.5 ± 0.3 . Discrepancies between our result and higher evolution rates measured using the infrared and far-UV can be reconciled by considering possibilities such as an underestimated dust correction at high redshifts or evolution in the stellar initial mass function. 相似文献
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Anthony J. Smith Jon Loveday Nicholas J. G. Cross 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,397(2):868-882
We present luminosity and surface-brightness distributions of 40 111 galaxies with K -band photometry from the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS), Data Release 3 and optical photometry from Data Release 5 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Various features and limitations of the new UKIDSS data are examined, such as a problem affecting Petrosian magnitudes of extended sources. Selection limits in K - and r -band magnitude, K -band surface brightness and K -band radius are included explicitly in the 1/ V max estimate of the space density and luminosity function. The bivariate brightness distribution in K -band absolute magnitude and surface brightness is presented and found to display a clear luminosity–surface brightness correlation that flattens at high luminosity and broadens at low luminosity, consistent with similar analyses at optical wavelengths. Best-fitting Schechter function parameters for the K -band luminosity function are found to be M *− 5 log h =−23.19 ± 0.04, α=−0.81 ± 0.04 and φ*= (0.0166 ± 0.0008) h 3 Mpc−3 , although the Schechter function provides a poor fit to the data at high and low luminosity, while the luminosity density in the K band is found to be j = (6.305 ± 0.067) × 108 L⊙ h Mpc−3 . However, we caution that there are various known sources of incompleteness and uncertainty in our results. Using mass-to-light ratios determined from the optical colours, we estimate the stellar mass function, finding good agreement with previous results. Possible improvements are discussed that could be implemented when extending this analysis to the full LAS. 相似文献
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K. Nagamine † M. Fukugita R. Cen J.P. Ostriker 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,327(1):L10-L14
The luminosity function of galaxies is derived from a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation of a Λ cold dark matter universe with the aid of a stellar population synthesis model. At , the resulting B -band luminosity function has a flat faint-end slope of with the characteristic luminosity and the normalization in fair agreement with observations, while the dark matter halo mass function is steep with a slope of . The colour distribution of galaxies also agrees well with local observations. We also discuss the evolution of the luminosity function, and the colour distribution of galaxies from to 5. A large evolution of the characteristic mass in the stellar mass function as a result of number evolution is compensated by luminosity evolution; the characteristic luminosity increases only by 0.8 mag from to 2, and then declines towards higher redshift, while the B -band luminosity density continues to increase from to 5 (but only slowly at . 相似文献
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I. K. Baldry M. L. Balogh R. G. Bower K. Glazebrook R. C. Nichol S. P. Bamford T. Budavari 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,373(2):469-483
We analyse a z < 0.1 galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey focusing on the variation in the galaxy colour bimodality with stellar mass and projected neighbour density Σ, and on measurements of the galaxy stellar mass functions. The characteristic mass increases with environmental density from about 1010.6 to (Kroupa initial mass function, H 0 = 70 ) for Σ in the range 0.1–10 Mpc−2 . The galaxy population naturally divides into a red and blue sequence with the locus of the sequences in colour–mass and colour–concentration indices not varying strongly with environment. The fraction of galaxies on the red sequence is determined in bins of 0.2 in log Σ and bins). The red fraction f r generally increases continuously in both Σ and such that there is a unified relation: . Two simple functions are proposed which provide good fits to the data. These data are compared with analogous quantities in semi-analytical models based on the Millennium N -body simulation: the Bower et al. and Croton et al. models that incorporate active galactic nucleus feedback. Both models predict a strong dependence of the red fraction on stellar mass and environment that is qualitatively similar to the observations. However, a quantitative comparison shows that the Bower et al. model is a significantly better match; this appears to be due to the different treatment of feedback in central galaxies. 相似文献
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R. Auld R. F. Minchin J. I. Davies B. Catinella W. van Driel P. A. Henning S. Linder E. Momjian E. Muller K. O'Neil S. Sabatini S. Schneider G. Bothun L. Cortese M. Disney G. L. Hoffman M. Putman J. L. Rosenberg M. Baes W. J. G. de Blok A. Boselli E. Brinks N. Brosch J. Irwin I. D. Karachentsev V. A. Kilborn B. Koribalski K. Spekkens † 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,371(4):1617-1640
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R. F. Minchin M. J. Disney Q. A. Parker P. J. Boyce W. J. G. de Blok G. D. Banks † R. D. Ekers K. C. Freeman D. A. Garcia B. K. Gibson M. Grossi R. F. Haynes P. M. Knezek R. H. Lang D. F. Malin R. M. Price M. Putman I. M. Stewart A. E. Wright 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,355(4):1303-1314
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