The $z<1.2$ optical luminosity function from a sample of $\sim 410000$ galaxies in bootes

Richard A. Beare, Michael J. I. Brown, Kevin A. Pimbblet +2

Using a sample of ~410 000 galaxies to depth I_AB = 24 over 8.26 deg^2 in the Bootes field (~10 times larger than z~1 luminosity function studies in the prior literature), we have…