The Galaxy Optical Luminosity Function from the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES)

Abstract

We present the galaxy optical luminosity function for the redshift range 0.05<z<0.75 from the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES), a spectroscopic survey of 7.6 sq. deg. in the Bootes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey. Our statistical sample is comprised of 12,473 galaxies with known redshifts down to I=20.4 (AB). Our results at low redshift are consistent with those from SDSS; at higher redshift, we find strong evidence for evolution in the luminosity function, including differential evolution between blue and red galaxies. We find that the luminosity density evolves as (1+z)^(0.54+/-0.64) for red galaxies and (1+z)^(1.64+/-0.39) for blue galaxies.

Accepted for publication in ApJ. 20 pages and 19 figures

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