The Faint End of the Luminosity Function in the Field

dc.creatorLoveday, Jon
dc.date1998-05-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:27:00Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:27:00Z
dc.descriptionI review the current observational status of the faint end of the optical luminosity function of field galaxies at low redshift. There is growing evidence for an excess number of dwarf galaxies that is not well fit by a single Schechter function. These dwarf galaxies tend to be of late morphological and spectral type, blue in colour, of low surface brightness and currently undergoing significant star formation.
dc.description8 pages, 3 embedded ps figures. To appear in Proceedings of the XVIIIth Moriond astrophysics meeting "Dwarf Galaxies and Cosmology", eds. Thuan et al, Publ: Editions Frontiers
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9805255
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9805255
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/12510
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe Faint End of the Luminosity Function in the Field
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