✦ LIBER ✦
A composite K -band luminosity function for cluster galaxies
✍ Scribed by R. De Propris; D. Christlein
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 83 KB
- Volume
- 330
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-6337
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
We present a composite K ‐band luminosity function for 10 clusters at low redshift, where member galaxies are identified from an existing spectroscopic survey (the 2dF galaxy redshift survey). Our kinematically selected K ‐band luminosity function is well fitted by a Schechter function with M~K~ * = –24.50 + 5 log h and α = –0.98 over –27 ≪ M~K~ –5 log h < –22. This is very similar to the 2dF field value and suggests that the integrated mass accretion history of galaxies does not vary strongly with environment (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)