The HerMES Local Luminosity Function
Abstract
We exploit the Herschel Extragalactic Multi-Tiered Survey (HerMES) dataset along with ancillary multi-wavelength photometry and spectroscopy from the Spitzer Data Fusion to provide the most accurate determination to date of the local (0.02<z<0.5) Far-Infrared Luminosity and Star Formation Rate Function. We present and compare our results with model predictions as well as other multi-wavelength estimates of the local star formation rate density.
- Publication:
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From Interstellar Clouds to Star-Forming Galaxies: Universal Processes?
- Pub Date:
- 2016
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2016IAUS..315E..52M
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: luminosity function;
- mass function;
- galaxies: evolution;
- infrared: galaxies;
- submillimeter;
- astronomical data bases: miscellaneous