about 3 years ago - No comments
Well, the deed has been done, and the paper has finally been submitted to MNRAS and to astro-ph. You can read it if you really want to: Luminosity and surface brightness distribution of K-band galaxies from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey. Here's a picture from the paper: This is the K-band luminosity function: the number…
about 3 years ago - No comments
This is some work in progress: K-band luminosity function from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey (LAS, black dots), showing the number of galaxies per unit volume depending on the luminosity of the galaxies, from faint (left) to bright (right). I.e., there are lots more small galaxies than big galaxies. I've fit several Schechter functions to…
about 4 years ago - No comments
Just back from my first visit to Garching (near Munich). ESO, to be more specific. The reason for the visit: a three-day workshop on Science from UKIDSS. Here's the gist of it. Lots of good results already, lots of work in progress, and a sense that UKIDSS has come of age: the needle-in-a-haystack hunters now…