Citation:
Cool RJ, Eisenstein DJ, Fan X, Fukugita M, Jiang L, Maraston C, Meiksin A, Schneider DP, Wake DA. Luminosity Function Constraints on the Evolution of Massive Red Galaxies since z ~ 0.9. The Astrophysical Journal. 2008;682 :919-936.
Date Published:
August 1, 2008Abstract:
We measure the evolution of the luminous red galaxy (LRG) luminosityfunction in the redshift range 0.12, minimizing the impact oflarge-scale structure on our results. We find that the LRG populationhas evolved little beyond the passive fading of its stellar populationssince z~0.9. Based on our luminosity function measurements and assuminga nonevolving Salpeter stellar initial mass function, we find that themost massive (L>3L*) red galaxies have grown by less than