The optical redshift survey. II. Derivation of the luminosity and diameter functions and of the density field

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 461, Issue 1 PART I, 1996, Pages 38-54

  Santiago, Basílio X ^a   Strauss, Michael A ^b   Lahav, Ofer ^c   David, Marc ^d   Dressler, Alan ^e   Huchra, John P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; Galaxies: photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344435477     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/177036     Document Type: Article

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