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26 April 2024

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The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Star-formation in UV-luminous galaxies from their luminosity functions
Russell J. Jurek ; Michael J. Drinkwater ; Kevin Pimbblet ; Karl Glazebrook ; Chris Blake ; Sarah Brough ; Matthew Colless ; Carlos Contreras ; Warrick Couch ; Scott Croom ; Darren Croton ; Tamara M. Davis ; Karl Forster ; David Gilbank ; Mike Gladders ; Ben Jelliffe ; I-hui Li ; Barry Madore ; D. Christopher Martin ; Gregory B. Poole ; Michael Pracy ; Rob Sharp ; Emily Wisnioski ; David Woods ; Ted K. Wyder ; H.K.C. Yee ;
Date:	18 Jun 2013
Abstract:	We present the ultraviolet (UV) luminosity function of galaxies from the GALEX Medium Imaging Survey with measured spectroscopic redshifts from the first data release of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. This sample selects galaxies with high star formation rates: at 0.6 < z < 0.9 the median star formation rate is at the upper 95th percentile of optically-selected (r<22.5) galaxies and the sample contains about 50 per cent of all NUV < 22.8, 0.6 < z < 0.9 starburst galaxies within the volume sampled. The most luminous galaxies in our sample (-21.0>M_NUV>-22.5) evolve very rapidly with a number density declining as (1+z)^{5pm 1} from redshift z = 0.9 to z = 0.6. These starburst galaxies (M_NUV<-21 is approximately a star formation rate of 30 msuny) contribute about 1 per cent of cosmic star formation over the redshift range z=0.6 to z=0.9. The star formation rate density of these very luminous galaxies evolves rapidly, as (1+z)^{4pm 1}. Such a rapid evolution implies the majority of star formation in these large galaxies must have occurred before z = 0.9. We measure the UV luminosity function in 0.05 redshift intervals spanning 0.1<z<0.9, and provide analytic fits to the results. At all redshifts greater than z=0.55 we find that the bright end of the luminosity function is not well described by a pure Schechter function due to an excess of very luminous (M_NUV<-22) galaxies. These luminosity functions can be used to create a radial selection function for the WiggleZ survey or test models of galaxy formation and evolution. Here we test the AGN feedback model in Scannapieco et al. (2005), and find that this AGN feedback model requires AGN feedback efficiency to vary with one or more of the following: stellar mass, star formation rate and redshift.
Source:	arXiv, 1306.4031
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