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The European Large Area ISO Survey - IX. The 90-mu m luminosity function from the Final Analysis sample

Serjeant, Stephen, Carraminana, Alberto, Gonzales-Solares, Eduardo, Heraudeau, Philippe, Mujica, Raul, Perez-Fournon, Ismael, Sedgwick, Nicola, Rowan-Robinson, Michael, Franceschini, Alberto, Babbedge, Tom, and others. (2004) The European Large Area ISO Survey - IX. The 90-mu m luminosity function from the Final Analysis sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 355 (3). pp. 813-818. ISSN 0035-8711. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08358.x) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:11804)

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Abstract

We present the 90-mum luminosity function of the Final Analysis of the European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS), extending the sample size of our previous analysis (Paper IV) by about a factor of 4. Our sample extends to z = 1.1, similar to50 times the comoving volume of Paper IV, and 10(7.7) < h(-2) L/Lcircle dot < 10(12.5). From our optical spectroscopy campaigns of the northern ELAIS 90-mum survey (7.4 deg(2) in total, to S-90 (mum) > 70 mJy), we obtained redshifts for 61 per cent of the sample (151 redshifts) to B < 21 identified at 7 mum, 15 mum, 20 cm or with bright (B < 18.5) optical identifications. The selection function is well-defined, permitting the construction of the 90-mum luminosity function of the Final Analysis catalogue in the ELAIS northern fields, which is in excellent agreement with our Preliminary Analysis luminosity function in the ELAIS S 1 field from Paper IV. The luminosity function is also in good agreement with the recent IRAS-based prediction of Serjeant and Harrison - which, if correct, requires luminosity evolution of (1 + z)(3.4 +/- 1.0) for consistency with the source counts. This implies an evolution in comoving-volume-averaged star formation rate at z less than or similar to 1 consistent with that derived from rest-frame optical and ultraviolet surveys.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08358.x
Additional information: 49 BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD 884WA
Uncontrolled keywords: galaxies : evolution; galaxies : formation; galaxies : starburst; cosmology : observations; infrared : galaxies; submillimetre
Subjects: Q Science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User: Maggie Francis
Date Deposited: 01 Oct 2008 14:27 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:50 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/11804 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Serjeant, Stephen.

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