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The B-Band Luminosity Function of Red and Blue Galaxies up to z=3.5 | E. Giallongo
; S. Salimbeni
; N. Menci
; G. Zamorani
; A. Fontana
; M. Dickinson
; S. Cristiani
; L. Pozzetti
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2 Dec 2004 | Journal: | Astrophys.J. 622 (2005) 116-128 | Subject: | astro-ph | Abstract: | We have explored the redshift evolution of the luminosity function of red and blue galaxies up to $z=3.5$. This was possible joining a deep I band composite galaxy sample, which includes the spectroscopic K20 sample and the HDFs samples, with the deep $H_{AB}=26$ and $K_{AB}=25$ samples derived from the deep NIR images of the Hubble Deep Fields North and South, respectively. About 30% of the sample has spectroscopic redshifts and the remaining fraction well-calibrated photometric redshifts. This allowed to select and measure galaxies in the rest-frame blue magnitude up to $zsim 3$ and to derive the redshift evolution of the B-band luminosity function of galaxies separated by their rest-frame $U-V$ color or specific (i.e. per unit mass) star-formation rate. The class separation was derived from passive evolutionary tracks or from their observed bimodal distributions. Both distributions appear bimodal at least up to $zsim 2$ and the locus of red/early galaxies is clearly identified up to these high redshifts. Both luminosity and density evolutions are needed to describe the cosmological behaviour of the red/early and blue/late populations. The density evolution is greater for the early population with a decrease by one order of magnitude at $zsim 2-3$ with respect to the value at $zsim 0.4$. The luminosity densities of the early and late type galaxies with $M_B<-20.6$ appear to have a bifurcation at $z>1$. Indeed while star-forming galaxies slightly increase or keep constant their luminosity density, "early" galaxies decrease in their luminosity density by a factor $sim 5-6$ from $zsim 0.4$ to $zsim 2.5-3$. A comparison with one of the latest versions of the hierarchical CDM models shows a broad agreement with the observed number and luminosity density evolutions of both populations. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0412044 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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