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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2020

UV and U-band luminosity functions from CLAUDS and HSC-SSP – I. Using four million galaxies to simultaneously constrain the very faint and bright regimes to z ∼ 3

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ABSTRACT We constrain the rest-frame FUV (1546 Å), NUV (2345 Å), and U-band (3690 Å) luminosity functions (LFs) and luminosity densities (LDs) with unprecedented precision from z ∼ 0.2 to z ∼ 3 (FUV, NUV) and z ∼ 2 (U band). Our sample of over 4.3 million galaxies, selected from the CFHT Large Area U-band Deep Survey (CLAUDS) and HyperSuprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) data lets us probe the very faint regime (down to MFUV, MNUV, MU ≃ −15 at low redshift), while simultaneously detecting very rare galaxies at the bright end down to comoving densities <10−5 Mpc−3. Our FUV and NUV LFs are well fitted by single-Schechter functions, with faint-end slopes that are very stable up to z ∼ 2. We confirm, but self-consistently and with much better precision than previous studies, that the LDs at all three wavelengths increase rapidly with lookback time to z ∼ 1, and then much more slowly at 1 < z < 2–3. Evolution of the FUV and NUV LFs and LDs at z < 1 is driven almost entirely by the fading of the characteristic magnitude, $M^\star _{\rm UV}$, while at z > 1 it is due to the evolution of both $M^\star _{\rm UV}$ and the characteristic number density $\phi ^\star _{\rm UV}$. In contrast, the U-band LF has an excess of faint galaxies and is fitted with a double-Schechter form; $M^\star _{U}$, both $\phi ^\star _{U}$ components, and the bright-end slope evolve throughout 0.2 < z < 2, while the faint-end slope is constant over at least the measurable 0.05 < z < 0.6. We present tables of our Schechter parameters and LD measurements that can be used for testing theoretical galaxy evolution models and forecasting future observations.
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hal-03431951 , version 1 (21-05-2024)

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Thibaud Moutard, Marcin Sawicki, Stéphane Arnouts, Anneya Golob, Jean Coupon, et al.. UV and U-band luminosity functions from CLAUDS and HSC-SSP – I. Using four million galaxies to simultaneously constrain the very faint and bright regimes to z ∼ 3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020, 494 (2), pp.1894-1918. ⟨10.1093/mnras/staa706⟩. ⟨hal-03431951⟩
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