A test for assessing the goodness-of-fit of luminosity function models to magnitude-redshift data

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 328, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1016-1026

  Rauzy, Stéphane ^a,b   Hendry, Martin A ^a   D'Mellow, Kenton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; Large scale structure of Universe; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LUMINANCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; TESTING;

FUNCTION MODELLING; GALAXIES DISTANCES AND REDSHIFTS; GALAXIES: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION; GALAXY: LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, MASS FUNCTION; GOODNESS OF FIT; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE; LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS; MASS FUNCTIONS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; RED SHIFT;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0042869611     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04864.x     Document Type: Article

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