A wide-field K-band survey. The luminosity function of galaxies

Abstract

We present the first determination of the near-infrared K-band luminosity function of field galaxies from a wide field K-selected redshift survey. The best fit Schechter function parameters are $M^{\ast }=-23.12+5log(h)$, $\alpha =-0.91$, and ${\varphi }^{\ast }=1.66\times 10^{-2}{h}^{3}Mp{c}^{-3}$. We estimate that systematics are no more than 0.1 mag in $M^{\ast }$ and 0.1 in $\alpha$, which is comparable to the statistical errors on this measurement.

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