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标题：The faint end of the 250 μm luminosity function at z < 0.5
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作者：L. Wang ; L. Wang ; P. Norberg 等
期刊名称：Astronomy & Astrophysics
印刷版ISSN：0004-6361
电子版ISSN：1432-0746
出版年度：2016
卷号：592
页码：1-6
DOI：10.1051/0004-6361/201629076
语种：English
出版社：EDP Sciences
摘要：Aims. We aim to study the 250 μm luminosity function (LF) down to much fainter luminosities than achieved by previous efforts. Methods. We developed a modified stacking method to reconstruct the 250 μm LF using optically selected galaxies from the SDSS survey and Herschel maps of the GAMA equatorial fields and Stripe 82. Our stacking method not only recovers the mean 250 μm luminosities of galaxies that are too faint to be individually detected, but also their underlying distribution functions. Results. We find very good agreement with previous measurements in the overlapping luminosity range. More importantly, we are able to derive the LF down to much fainter luminosities (~ 25 times fainter) than achieved by previous studies. We find strong positive luminosity evolution L*250(z)∝(1+z)4.89±1.07 and moderate negative density evolution Φ*250(z)∝(1+z)-1.02±0.54 over the redshift range 0.02
关键词：submillimeter: galaxies;galaxies: statistics;methods: statistical;galaxies: evolution;galaxies: abundances;galaxies: luminosity function, mass function