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UVUDF: UV Luminosity Functions at the Cosmic High Noon

  • Authors: Vihang Mehta, Claudia Scarlata, Marc Rafelski, Timothy Gburek, Harry I. Teplitz, Anahita Alavi, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Steven Finkelstein, Jonathan P. Gardner, Norman Grogin, Anton Koekemoer, Peter Kurczynski, Brian Siana, Alex Codoreanu, Duilia F. de Mello, Kyoung-Soo Lee, and Emmaris Soto

2017 The Astrophysical Journal 838 29.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

Star formation rate functions derived from the UV luminosity function (this work) with dust corrections applied using the generic Meurer et al. (1999, in red) ﹩{IRX}\mbox{--}\beta ﹩ relation as well as the Castellano et al. (2014, in blue) and Reddy et al. (2015, in green) relations, which are calibrated at high redshifts (﹩z\sim 2\mbox{--}3﹩). The Hα star formation rate function derived using the Sobral et al. (2013) Hα LF and corrected using Hopkins et al. (2001; updated for high redshift using Domínguez et al. 2013 observations) is plotted in black. The UV SFRF corrected using the M99 dust law shows a large discrepancy with the Hα SFRF, particularly at the bright end. Note that the LFs have only been plotted down to the survey limits. See the text for full details on the applied dust corrections.

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