@article{41aa52e2f9bd4a39ba654fc46bc3f99d,
title = "The ultraviolet luminosity function of star-forming galaxies between redshifts of 0.6 and 1.2",
abstract = "We use ultraviolet (UV) imaging taken with the XMM-Newton Optical Monitor telescope (XMM-OM), covering 280 arcmin2 in the UVW1 band (λeff = 2910 {\AA}) to measure rest-frame UV 1500-{\AA} luminosity functions of galaxies with redshifts z between 0.6 and 1.2. The XMM-OM data are supplemented by a large body of optical and infrared imaging to provide photometric redshifts. The XMM-OM data have a significantly narrower point spread function (resulting in less source confusion) and simpler K-correction than the GALEX data previously employed in this redshift range. UV-bright active galactic nuclei are excluded to ensure that the luminosity functions relate directly to the star-forming galaxy population. Binned luminosity functions and parametric Schechter-function fits are derived in two redshift intervals: 0.6 < z < 0.8 and 0.8 < z < 1.2. We find that the luminosity function evolves such that the characteristic absolute magnitude M∗ is brighter for 0.8 < z < 1.2 than for 0.6 < z < 0.8.",
author = "Page, {M. J.} and T. Dwelly and I. McHardy and N. Seymour and Mason, {K. O.} and M. Sharma and Kennea, {J. A.} and Sasseen, {T. P.} and Rawlings, {J. I.} and Breeveld, {A. A.} and I. Ferreras and Loaring, {N. S.} and Walton, {D. J.} and M. Symeonidis",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC) grant numbers ST/N000811/1 and ST/S000216/1. DJW acknowledges support from an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship. Based on observations obtained with XMM-Newton, an ESA science mission with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA Member States and NASA. The WIRCam observations were made through the OPTICON program. This work is based in part on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA. The William Herschel Telescope and the Isaac Newton Telescope are operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrof{\'i}sica de Canarias. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.",
year = "2021",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/mnras/stab1638",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "506",
pages = "473--487",
journal = "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society",
issn = "0035-8711",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "1",
}