TY - JOUR
T1 - The 2df SDSS LRG and QSO survey: evolution of the luminosity function of luminous red galaxies to z = 0.6
AU - Wake, David
AU - Nichol, Robert
AU - Eisenstein, Daniel
AU - Loveday, Jon
AU - Edge, Alastair
AU - Cannon, Russell
AU - Smail, Ian
AU - Schneider, Donald
AU - Scranton, Ryan
AU - Carson, Daniel
AU - Ross, Nic
AU - Brunner, Robert
AU - Colless, Matthew
AU - Couch, Warrwick
AU - Croom, Scott
AU - Driver, Simon
AU - Angela, Jose
AU - Jester, Sebastian
AU - De Propris, Roberto
AU - Drinkwater, Michael
AU - Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
AU - Pimbblet, Kevin
AU - Roseboom, Isaac
AU - Shanks, Tom
AU - Sharp, Robert
AU - Brinkmann, John
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully quantified, and corrected for, uncertainties in the K and evolutionary corrections, differences in the colour selection methods, and the effects of photometric errors, thus ensuring we are studying the same galaxy population in both surveys. Using a limited subset of 6326 SDSS LRGs (with 0.17 <z <0.24) and 1725 2SLAQ LRGs (with 0.5 <z <0.6), for which the matching colour selection is most reliable, we find no evidence for any additional evolution in the LRG LF, over this redshift range, beyond that expected from a simple passive evolution model.
AB - We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully quantified, and corrected for, uncertainties in the K and evolutionary corrections, differences in the colour selection methods, and the effects of photometric errors, thus ensuring we are studying the same galaxy population in both surveys. Using a limited subset of 6326 SDSS LRGs (with 0.17 <z <0.24) and 1725 2SLAQ LRGs (with 0.5 <z <0.6), for which the matching colour selection is most reliable, we find no evidence for any additional evolution in the LRG LF, over this redshift range, beyond that expected from a simple passive evolution model.
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10831.x/pdf
U2 - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10831.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10831.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 372
SP - 537
EP - 550
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 2
ER -