J/A+A/575/A40ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/575/A40doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.35750040CDSComparat J.Richard J.Kneib J.-P.Ilbert O.Gonzalez-Perez V.,Tresse L.Zoubian J.Arnouts S.Bacon R.Brownstein J.R.Baugh C.,Delubac T.Ealet A.Escoffier S.Ge J.Jullo E.Lacey C.Ross N.P.,Schlegel D.Schneider D.P.Steele O.Tasca L.Yeche C.Lesser M.,Jiang Z.Jing Y.Fan Z.Fan X.Ma J.Nie J.Wang J.Wu Z.Zhang T.,Zhou X.Zhou Z.Zou H.2017-06-22T14:28:20Z2015-02-18T09:11:47ZCDS support team

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cds-question@unistra.frsurveysgalaxiescatalogsredshiftedWe present the [OII] luminosity function measured in the redshift range 0.1<z<1.65 with unprecedented depth and accuracy. Our measurements are based on medium resolution flux-calibrated spectra of emission line galaxies with the FORS2 instrument at VLT and with the SDSS-III/BOSS spectrograph. The FORS2 spectra and the corresponding catalog containing redshifts and line fluxes are released along with this paper. In this work we use a novel method to combine the aforementioned surveys with GAMA, zCOSMOS and VVDS, which have different target selection, producing a consistent weighting scheme to derive the [OII] luminosity function. The measured luminosity function is in good agreement with previous independent estimates. The comparison with two state-of-the-art semi-analytical models is good, which is encouraging for the production of mock catalogs of [OII] flux limited surveys. We observe the bright end evolution over 8.5Gyr: we measure the decrease of logL* from 42.4erg/s at redshift 1.44 to 41.2 at redshift 0.165 and we find that the faint end slope flattens when redshift decreases. This measurement confirms the feasibility of the target selection of future baryonic acoustic oscillation surveys aiming at observing [OII] flux limited samples.2015A&A...575A..40Chttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/575/A40CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicehttps://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/575/A40https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/575/A40http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/575/A40https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/575/A40https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/575/A40http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/575/A40GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/A+A/575/A40/catalog (Spectroscopic redshifts acquired using the ESO VLT/FORS2 facility)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/575/A40/catalog?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/575/A40/catalog?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/575/A40/catalog?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true150.299366941.788263890.0055555555555555566/27245 27247 27256 27258https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/A+A/575/A40?format=asciiOpticaldefaultJ/A+A/575/A40/catalogSpectroscopic redshifts acquired using the ESO VLT/FORS2 facilityrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintRAJ2000Right ascension (J2000)degpos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000Declination (J2000)degpos.eq.dec;meta.mainz[0/4.82] Spectrosocpic redshiftsrc.redshiftfloatJ/A+A/575/A40/lfLuminosity functions for seven redshift rangesrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintz.min[0.1/1.34] Lower boundary of redshift rangeinstr.bandwidthfloatz.max[0.24/1.65] Upper boundary of redshift rangeinstr.bandwidthfloatNpNumber of points for this redshift rangemeta.numberintnullablelogLmin[40/48] Minimum log10 of the [OII] luminositylog(1e-07W)phys.luminosityfloatlogLmax[40/48] Maximum log10 of the [OII] luminositylog(1e-07W)phys.luminosityfloatlogL[40/48] Mean log10 of the [OII] luminositylog(1e-07W)phys.luminosityfloatphiDensity {phi} of [OII] tracer (Mpc^-3^/dlogL)Mpc**-3phys.densitydoublee_phirms uncertainty on phi (in Mpc^-3^/dlogL)Mpc**-3stat.errordoublejkESShare of the jack-knife error, i.e. the sample variancestat.errordoublegalESShare of the Poisson error due to the finite number of galaxies usedstat.errordoublewESShare of the error on the completeness weightstat.errordoubleNgal[1/1273] Number of galaxies used to obtain this measurement of the densitymeta.numberint