1112.0006 (Mauro Stefanon et al.)

The evolution of the rest-frame J- and H-band luminosity function of galaxies to z=3.5    [PDF]

Mauro Stefanon, Danilo Marchesini

We present the rest-frame J- and H-band luminosity function (LF) of field galaxies, based on a deep multi-wavelength composite sample from the MUSYC, FIRES and FIREWORKS survey public catalogues, covering a total area of 450 arcmin^2. The availability of flux measurements in the Spitzer IRAC 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8 um channels allows us to compute absolute magnitudes in the rest-frame J and H bands up to z=3.5 minimizing the dependence on the stellar evolution models. We compute the LF in the four redshift bins 1.5View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0006