%0 Generic %1 comparat201401z165 %A Comparat, Johan %A Richard, Johan %A Kneib, Jean-Paul %A Ilbert, Olivier %A Gonzalez-Perez, V. %A Tresse, Laurence %A Zoubian, Julien %A Arnouts, Stephane %A Bacon, Roland %A Brownstein, Joel R. %A Baugh, Carlton %A Delubac, Timothee %A Ealet, Anne %A Escoffier, Stephanie %A Ge, Jian %A Jullo, Eric %A Lacey, Cedric %A Ross, Nicholas P. %A Schlegel, David %A Schneider, Donald P. %A Steele, Oliver %A Tasca, Lidia %A Yeche, Christophe %A Lesser, Michael %A Jiang, Zhaoji %A Jing, Yipeng %A Fan, Zhou %A Fan, Xiaohui %A Ma, Jun %A Nie, Jundan %A Wang, Jiali %A Wu, Zhenyu %A Zhang, Tianmeng %A Zhou, Xu %A Zhou, Zhimin %A Zou, Hu %D 2014 %K function luminosity oii %T The 0.1<z<1.65 evolution of the bright end of the OII luminosity function %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1523 %X We present the OII luminosity function measured in the redshift range 0.1<z<1.65 with unprecedented depth and accuracy. Our measurements are based on medium resolution flux-calibrated spectra of emission line galaxies with the FORS2 instrument at VLT and with the SDSS-III/BOSS spectrograph. The FORS2 spectra and the corresponding catalog containing redshifts and line fluxes are released along with this paper. In this work we use a novel method to combine the aforementioned surveys with GAMA, zCOSMOS and VVDS, which have different target selection, producing a consistent weighting scheme to derive the OII luminosity function. The measured luminosity function is in good agreement with previous independent estimates. The comparison with two state-of-the-art semi-analytical models is very good up to z= 1.1, which is encouraging for the production of mock catalogs of OII flux limited surveys. We observe the bright end evolution over 8.5 Gyr: we measure the decrease of log L* from 42.4 erg/s at redshift 1.44 to 41.2 at redshift 0.165. We find the faint end slope flattening from alpha(z=0.95)=-2.6 to alpha(z=0.17)=-1.1. This measurement confirms the feasibility of the target selection of future baryonic acoustic oscillation surveys aiming at observing OII flux limited samples.

@misc{comparat201401z165, abstract = {We present the [OII] luminosity function measured in the redshift range 0.1<z<1.65 with unprecedented depth and accuracy. Our measurements are based on medium resolution flux-calibrated spectra of emission line galaxies with the FORS2 instrument at VLT and with the SDSS-III/BOSS spectrograph. The FORS2 spectra and the corresponding catalog containing redshifts and line fluxes are released along with this paper. In this work we use a novel method to combine the aforementioned surveys with GAMA, zCOSMOS and VVDS, which have different target selection, producing a consistent weighting scheme to derive the [OII] luminosity function. The measured luminosity function is in good agreement with previous independent estimates. The comparison with two state-of-the-art semi-analytical models is very good up to z= 1.1, which is encouraging for the production of mock catalogs of [OII] flux limited surveys. We observe the bright end evolution over 8.5 Gyr: we measure the decrease of log L* from 42.4 erg/s at redshift 1.44 to 41.2 at redshift 0.165. We find the faint end slope flattening from alpha(z=0.95)=-2.6 to alpha(z=0.17)=-1.1. This measurement confirms the feasibility of the target selection of future baryonic acoustic oscillation surveys aiming at observing [OII] flux limited samples.}, added-at = {2014-08-08T09:43:22.000+0200}, author = {Comparat, Johan and Richard, Johan and Kneib, Jean-Paul and Ilbert, Olivier and Gonzalez-Perez, V. and Tresse, Laurence and Zoubian, Julien and Arnouts, Stephane and Bacon, Roland and Brownstein, Joel R. and Baugh, Carlton and Delubac, Timothee and Ealet, Anne and Escoffier, Stephanie and Ge, Jian and Jullo, Eric and Lacey, Cedric and Ross, Nicholas P. and Schlegel, David and Schneider, Donald P. and Steele, Oliver and Tasca, Lidia and Yeche, Christophe and Lesser, Michael and Jiang, Zhaoji and Jing, Yipeng and Fan, Zhou and Fan, Xiaohui and Ma, Jun and Nie, Jundan and Wang, Jiali and Wu, Zhenyu and Zhang, Tianmeng and Zhou, Xu and Zhou, Zhimin and Zou, Hu}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/203fe919822ac15587c45309607e32466/miki}, description = {[1408.1523] The 0.1&lt;z&lt;1.65 evolution of the bright end of the [OII] luminosity function}, interhash = {10785391c671dee4b45912f7b12bbf5d}, intrahash = {03fe919822ac15587c45309607e32466}, keywords = {function luminosity oii}, note = {cite arxiv:1408.1523Comment: 20 pages, 22 Figures, submitted}, timestamp = {2014-08-08T09:43:22.000+0200}, title = {The 0.1<z<1.65 evolution of the bright end of the [OII] luminosity function}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1523}, year = 2014 }