The 2dF galaxy redshift survey: Near-infrared galaxy luminosity functions

Shaun Cole; Peder Norberg; Carlton M. Baugh; Carlos S. Frenk; Joss Bland-Hawthorn; Terry Bridges; Russell Cannon; Matthew Colless; Chris Collins; Warrick Couch; Nicholas Cross; Gavin Dalton; Roberto De Propris; Simon P. Driver; George Efstathiou; Richard S. Ellis; Karl Glazebrook; Carole Jackson; Ofer Lahav; Ian Lewis; Stuart Lumsden; Steve Maddox; Darren Madgwick; John A. Peacock; Bruce A. Peterson; Will Sutherland; Keith Taylor

doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04591.x

The 2dF galaxy redshift survey: Near-infrared galaxy luminosity functions

Shaun Cole^*, Peder Norberg, Carlton M. Baugh, Carlos S. Frenk, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Terry Bridges, Russell Cannon, Matthew Colless, Chris Collins, Warrick Couch, Nicholas Cross, Gavin Dalton, Roberto De Propris, Simon P. Driver, George Efstathiou, Richard S. Ellis, Karl Glazebrook, Carole Jackson, Ofer Lahav, Ian LewisStuart Lumsden, Steve Maddox, Darren Madgwick, John A. Peacock, Bruce A. Peterson, Will Sutherland, Keith Taylor

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We combine the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Extended Source Catalogue and the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey to produce an infrared selected galaxy catalogue with 17 173 measured redshifts. We use this extensive data set to estimate the galaxy luminosity functions in the J- and K_S-bands. The luminosity functions are fairly well fitted by Schechter functions with parameters M*_J - 5log h = -22.36 ± 0.02, α_J = -0.93 ± 0.04, Φ_J* = 0.0104 ± 0.0016h³ Mpc^-3 in the J-band and M*_Ks - 5log h = -23.44 ± 0.03, α_Ks = -0.96 ± 0.05, Φ_Ks* = 0.0108 ± 0.0016h³ Mpc^-3 in the K_s-band (2MASS Kron magnitudes). These parameters are derived assuming a cosmological model with Ω₀ = 0.3 and Λ₀ = 0.7. With data sets of this size, systematic rather than random errors are the dominant source of uncertainty in the determination of the luminosity function. We carry out a careful investigation of possible systematic effects in our data. The surface brightness distribution of the sample shows no evidence that significant numbers of low surface brightness or compact galaxies are missed by the survey. We estimate the present-day distributions of b_J - K_S and J - K_S colours as a function of the absolute magnitude and use models of the galaxy stellar populations, constrained by the observed optical and infrared colours, to infer the galaxy stellar mass function. Integrated over all galaxy masses, this yields a total mass fraction in stars (in units of the critical mass density) of Ω_starsh = (1.6 ± 0.24) × 10^-3 for a Kennicutt initial mass function (IMF) and Ω_starsh = (2.9 ± 0.43) × 10^-3 for a Salpeter IMF. These values are consistent with those inferred from observational estimates of the total star formation history of the Universe provided that dust extinction corrections are modest.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	255-273
Number of pages	19
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	326
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04591.x
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2001

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Cole, S., Norberg, P., Baugh, C. M., Frenk, C. S., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bridges, T., Cannon, R., Colless, M., Collins, C., Couch, W., Cross, N., Dalton, G., De Propris, R., Driver, S. P., Efstathiou, G., Ellis, R. S., Glazebrook, K., Jackson, C., Lahav, O., ... Taylor, K. (2001). The 2dF galaxy redshift survey: Near-infrared galaxy luminosity functions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 326(1), 255-273. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04591.x

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Cole, S, Norberg, P, Baugh, CM, Frenk, CS, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Bridges, T, Cannon, R, Colless, M, Collins, C, Couch, W, Cross, N, Dalton, G, De Propris, R, Driver, SP, Efstathiou, G, Ellis, RS, Glazebrook, K, Jackson, C, Lahav, O, Lewis, I, Lumsden, S, Maddox, S, Madgwick, D, Peacock, JA, Peterson, BA, Sutherland, W & Taylor, K 2001, 'The 2dF galaxy redshift survey: Near-infrared galaxy luminosity functions', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 326, no. 1, pp. 255-273. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04591.x

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