The ultraviolet luminosity function of star-forming galaxies between redshifts of 0.6 and 1.2

M. J. Page; T. Dwelly; I. McHardy; N. Seymour; K. O. Mason; M. Sharma; J. A. Kennea; T. P. Sasseen; J. I. Rawlings; A. A. Breeveld; I. Ferreras; N. S. Loaring; D. J. Walton; M. Symeonidis

doi:10.1093/mnras/stab1638

The ultraviolet luminosity function of star-forming galaxies between redshifts of 0.6 and 1.2

M. J. Page
, T. Dwelly
, I. McHardy
, N. Seymour
, K. O. Mason
, M. Sharma
, J. A. Kennea
, T. P. Sasseen
, J. I. Rawlings
, A. A. Breeveld
, I. Ferreras
, N. S. Loaring
, D. J. Walton
, M. Symeonidis

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We use ultraviolet (UV) imaging taken with the XMM–Newton Optical Monitor telescope (XMM-OM), covering 280 arcmin2 in the UVW1 band (λeff = 2910 Å) to measure rest-frame UV 1500-Å luminosity functions of galaxies with redshifts z between 0.6 and 1.2. The XMM-OM data are supplemented by a large body of optical and infrared imaging to provide photometric redshifts. The XMM-OM data have a significantly narrower point spread function (resulting in less source confusion) and simpler K-correction than the GALEX data previously employed in this redshift range. UV-bright active galactic nuclei are excluded to ensure that the luminosity functions relate directly to the star-forming galaxy population. Binned luminosity functions and parametric Schechter-function fits are derived in two redshift intervals: 0.6 < z < 0.8 and 0.8 < z < 1.2. We find that the luminosity function evolves such that the characteristic absolute magnitude M* is brighter for 0.8 < z < 1.2 than for 0.6 < z < 0.8.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	473-487
Number of pages	15
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
Volume	506
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1638
Publication status	Published - 14 Jun 2021

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Page, M. J., Dwelly, T., McHardy, I., Seymour, N., Mason, K. O., Sharma, M., Kennea, J. A., Sasseen, T. P., Rawlings, J. I., Breeveld, A. A., Ferreras, I., Loaring, N. S., Walton, D. J., & Symeonidis, M. (2021). The ultraviolet luminosity function of star-forming galaxies between redshifts of 0.6 and 1.2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 506(1), 473-487. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1638

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The ultraviolet luminosity function of star-forming galaxies between redshifts of 0.6 and 1.2

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