An improved method of constructing binned luminosity functions

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 311, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 433-440

  Page, M J ^a   Carrera, F J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA DE CANTABRIA CSIC UC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; GALAXIES;

EXPECTATION VALUES; FLUX LIMITS; GALAXIES: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION; GALAXY EVOLUTION; GALAXY: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, MASS FUNCTION; LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS; MASS FUNCTIONS; QUASARS:GENERAL; RED SHIFT; REDSHIFT RANGE;

LUMINANCE;

EID: 0000576694     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03105.x     Document Type: Article

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