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PRIMUS: Constraints on Star Formation Quenching and Galaxy Merging, and the Evolution of the Stellar Mass Function From z=0-1

Citation:

Moustakas J, Coil A, Aird J, Blanton MR, Cool RJ, Eisenstein DJ, Mendez AJ, Wong KC, Zhu G, Arnouts S. PRIMUS: Constraints on Star Formation Quenching and Galaxy Merging, and the Evolution of the Stellar Mass Function From z=0-1. ArXiv e-prints. 2013;1301 :1688.

Abstract:

We measure the evolution of the stellar mass function (SMF) from z=0-1using multi-wavelength imaging and spectroscopic redshifts from thePRism MUlti-object Survey (PRIMUS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey(SDSS). From PRIMUS we construct an i<23 flux-limited sample of~40,000 galaxies at z=0.2-1.0 over five fields totaling ~5.5 deg^2, andfrom the SDSS we select ~170,000 galaxies at z=0.01-0.2 that we analyzeconsistently with respect to PRIMUS to minimize systematic errors in ourevolutionary measurements. We find that the SMF of all galaxies evolvesrelatively little since z=1, although we do find evidence for mass

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submitted to ApJ; revised to reflect first referee report; 39 emulateapj pages, 20 figures, 7 tables

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