A census of K-band galaxies from the UKIDSS large area survey

Much can be learned about the formation of galaxies by taking a census of the present-day population. As a first step towards such an endeavour, I present luminosity and surface brightness distributions of 36 659 galaxies with K-band photometry from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large...

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Main Author: Smith, Anthony
Published: University of Sussex 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488573