An exponential decline at the bright end of the z=6 galaxy luminosity function
Chris J. Willott, Ross J. McLure, Pascale Hibon, Richard Bielby, Henry J. McCracken, Jean-Paul Kneib, Olivier Ilbert, David G. Bonfield, Victoria A. Bruce, Matt J. Jarvis
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14 pages, 11 figures, AJ in press, revised to address referee comments
We present the results of a search for the most luminous star-forming galaxies at redshifts z~6 based on CFHT Legacy Survey data. We identify a sample of 40 Lyman break galaxies brighter than magnitude z'=25.3 across an area of almost 4 square degrees. Sensitive spectroscopic observations of seven galaxies provide redshifts for four, of which only two have moderate to strong Lyman alpha emission lines. All four have clear continuum breaks in their spectra. Approximately half of the Lyman break galaxies are spatially resolved in 0.7 arcsec seeing images, indicating larger sizes than lower luminosity galaxies discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope, possibly due to on-going mergers. The stacked optical and infrared photometry is consistent with a galaxy model with stellar mass ~ 10^{10} solar masses. There is strong evidence for substantial dust reddening with a best-fit A_V=0.7 and A_V>0.48 at 2 sigma confidence, in contrast to the typical dust-free galaxies of lower luminosity at this epoch. The spatial extent and spectral energy distribution suggest that the most luminous z~6 galaxies are undergoing merger-induced starbursts. The luminosity function of z=5.9 star-forming galaxies is derived. This agrees well with previous work and shows strong evidence for an exponential decline at the bright end, indicating that the feedback processes which govern the shape of the bright end are occurring effectively at this epoch.
Magnitude Gap Statistics and the Conditional Luminosity Function
在最近的预印本中,Hearin et al.(2012,H12)提出,星系团的晕质量丰富度校准可以通过使用最亮和第二亮星系的星等差异(星等差距)作为额外的可观测性来改进。他们声称他们的结果与Paranjape & Sheth(2012,PS12)的结果不一致,后者表明最亮和第二亮星系的星等分布可以根据从总星系光度函数中随机抽样的光度顺序统计来解释。我们发现,一个条件光度函数(CLF)的星系的晕质量的变化,在与现有的观测结果相一致的方式,自然会导致一个大小差距分布的变化作为一个函数的晕质量在固定的丰富度,在定性协议与H12。我们表明,在一般情况下,最亮和第二亮的星系的光度分布取决于是否从CLF或全球光度函数绘制的星系的光度。然而,我们也表明,这两种情况之间的差异是小到足以逃避检测的小样本调查PS12。这表明,鉴于样本量较小,光度分布不是区分这两种情况的适当统计量。我们认为,CLF(因此H12)的基础上,它与其他独立的观测,如卫星星系的运动学,星系的丰度和集群,以及来自斯隆数字巡天星系-星系透镜信号的一致性。
Environmental effects on the bright end of the galaxy luminosity function in galaxy clusters
团星系的光度函数对母星系团演化状态的依赖性仍然是一个悬而未决的问题,特别是关于最亮的团星系的形成/演化。我们计划研究一个非常不松弛的集群(“DARC”集群显示的证据,主要的,最近的合并)的样本的LF的明亮部分,并将它们与一个参考样本的松弛集群跨越可比的质量和红移范围。我们的分析是基于10个大质量X射线发光星团(0.2<z<0.3)的SDSS DR 7光度数据,始终考虑物理半径(R_200或其分数)。我们考虑r'波段的低频,并使用颜色-星等图(r'-i ',r')来清洁我们的样本,以及考虑单独的红色和蓝色星系。我们发现,DARC和放松集群给出类似的LF参数和蓝色分数。这两个样本的亮星系BG含量不同,M_r<-22.5,因为松弛星系团的BG较少,特别是当考虑到外星系团区域0.5R_200<R<R_200时(因子2)。然而,BG中的累积光对于松弛和DARC样品是相似的。我们的结论是BG增长的亮度和减少的数量作为母星系团增长的层次结构与BG形成与其他发光星系合并。
Order statistics of the early-type galaxy luminosity function
我们应用顺序统计量(OS)的亮端($M_r < -22$)的光度分布的早期型星系的光谱确定的SDSS DR 7目录。我们计算这种分布的典型OS数量的数值,测量的期望值和方差的$k^{th}$最明亮的星系在一个样本的基数$N$在一个大的合奏这样的样本。从这些统计量,我们解释了为什么和在什么限制$k^{th}$最明亮的星系可以作为标准蜡烛宇宙学研究。由于我们的样本包含所有明亮的星系,包括最亮的星系团(BCG),基于OS,我们认为,BCGs可以被认为是一个完善的Schechter光度分布的统计极值时,星系的红移,而不是集群集群。我们推测这背后的原因可能是星系团中明亮的红色椭圆星系是\em,而不是整体光度分布的随机\em样本,而是由于它们位于包含BCG的星系团中而产生偏差。我们表明,一个简单的统计玩具模型可以重现著名的BCG和第二亮星系团之间的星等差距。
The Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies Survey: Constraints on the Bright End of the z~8 Luminosity Function
We report the discovery of 33 Lyman break galaxy (LBG) candidates at z~8 detected in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) imaging as part of the Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies (BoRG) pure-parallel survey. The ongoing BoRG survey currently has the largest area (274 arcmin^2) with Y_098 (or Y_105), J_125, and H_160 band coverage needed to search for z~8 galaxies, about three times the current CANDELS area, and slightly larger than what will be the final CANDELS wide component with Y_105 data. Our sample of 33 relatively bright Y_098-dropout galaxies have J_125 band magnitude…
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Leiden University(莱顿大学);The Australian National University(澳大利亚国立大学);Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian(哈佛-史密森天体物理中心);University of California, Santa Barbara(加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校);Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University(莱顿大学洛伦兹理论物理研究所)