The Hawaii K-Band Galaxy Survey. II. Bright K-band Imaging

Abstract

We present the results of a wide-field K-selected galaxy survey with complementary optical I- and B-band imaging in six fields with a total coverage of 9.8 square degrees. This survey establishes the bright-end K-band galaxy number counts in the magnitude range 13<K<16 with high precision. We find that our bright-end counts have a significantly steeper slope than the prediction of a no-evolution model, which cannot be accounted for by known observational or theoretical error. We also argue against the likelihood of sufficient evolution at such low redshifts to account for this effect, we describe an alternative picture in which there is a local deficiency of galaxies by a factor of 2 on scale sizes of around 300 Mpc. Taken at face value, this would imply that local measurements of Ω_0 underestimate the true value of the cosmological mass density by this factor and that local measurements of $H_0$ could be high by as much as 33%.

24 pages Latex + 8 PostScript figures, to appear in Astrophysical Journal(02/97)

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