Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : the dependence of the galaxy luminosity function on environment, redshift and colour.

  • McNaught-Roberts, T.
  • Norberg, P.
  • Baugh, C.
  • Lacey, C.
  • Loveday, J.
  • Peacock, J.
  • Baldry, I.
  • Bland-Hawthorn, J.
  • Brough, S.
  • Driver, S.P.
  • Robotham, A.S.G.
  • Vázquez-Mata, J.A.
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Publication date
December 2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Language
English

Abstract

We use 80 922 galaxies in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to measure the galaxy luminosity function (LF) in different environments over the redshift range 0.04 < z < 0.26. The depth and size of GAMA allows us to define samples split by colour and redshift to measure the dependence of the LF on environment, redshift and colour. We find that the LF varies smoothly with overdensity, consistent with previous results, with little environmental dependent evolution over the last 3 Gyr. The modified GALFORM model predictions agree remarkably well with our LFs split by environment, particularly in the most overdense environments. The LFs predicted by the model for both blue and red galaxies are consistent with GAMA for the environments an...

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