Tests of statistical methods for estimating galaxy luminosity function and applications to the Hubble Deep Field

Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-31

  Takeuchi, Tsutomu T ^a   Yoshikawa, Kohji ^a   Ishii, Takako T ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Evolution; Galaxies: Luminosity function, mass function; Galaxies: Statistics; Methods: Statistical

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002788586     PISSN: 00670049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313409     Document Type: Article

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