The bivariate brightness function of galaxies and a demonstration of the impact of surface brightness selection effects on luminosity function estimations

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 329, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 579-587

  Cross, Nicholas ^a   Driver, Simon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: general; Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LUMINANCE;

BIVARIATE; BRIGHTNESS DISTRIBUTION; COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; GALAXIES GENERAL; GALAXIES: FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS; GALAXIES: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION; GALAXY: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, MASS FUNCTION; LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS; MASS FUNCTIONS; SURFACE BRIGHTNESS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0011735015     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05052.x     Document Type: Article

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