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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 9.

Completeness functions for the F275W, F336W, and F435W filters (from left to right) for sources detected at ﹩\gt 5\sigma ﹩. The top panel shows the completeness as a function of magnitude only, whereas in the bottom panel, completeness is plotted as a function of magnitude and galaxy size. The dashed lines show where the completeness drops to 50%. The F435W (B-band) half-light radius (HLR) is used as a proxy for galaxy size. From the bottom panels, it is evident that galaxy size has a significant impact on the completeness—extended sources are missed more often than the more compact ones, even when they have the same magnitude.

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