Bibcode
Serjeant, Stephen; Carramiñana, Alberto; Gonzáles-Solares, Eduardo; Héraudeau, Phillipe; Mújica, Raúl; Perez-Fournon, Ismael; Sedgwick, Nicola; Rowan-Robinson, Michael; Franceschini, Alberto; Babbedge, Thomas; del Burgo, Carlos; Ciliegi, Paolo; Efstathiou, Andreas; La Franca, Fabio; Gruppioni, Carlotta; Hughes, David; Lari, Carlo; Oliver, Seb; Pozzi, Francesca; Stickel, Manfred; Vaccari, Mattia
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 355, Issue 3, pp. 813-818.
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12
2004
Citations
28
Refereed citations
25
Description
We present the 90-μm luminosity function of the Final Analysis of the
European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS), extending the sample size of our
previous analysis (Paper IV) by about a factor of 4. Our sample extends
to z= 1.1, ~50 times the comoving volume of Paper IV, and
107.7 < h-2L/Lsolar <
1012.5. From our optical spectroscopy campaigns of the
northern ELAIS 90-μm survey (7.4 deg2 in total, to
S90μm>= 70 mJy), we obtained redshifts for 61 per cent
of the sample (151 redshifts) to B < 21 identified at 7 μm, 15
μm, 20 cm or with bright (B < 18.5) optical identifications. The
selection function is well-defined, permitting the construction of the
90-μm luminosity function of the Final Analysis catalogue in the
ELAIS northern fields, which is in excellent agreement with our
Preliminary Analysis luminosity function in the ELAIS S1 field from
Paper IV. The luminosity function is also in good agreement with the
recent IRAS-based prediction of Serjeant and Harrison - which, if
correct, requires luminosity evolution of (1 +z)3.4+/-1.0 for
consistency with the source counts. This implies an evolution in
comoving-volume-averaged star formation rate at z<~ 1 consistent with
that derived from rest-frame optical and ultraviolet surveys.