The GALEX-VVDS Measurement of the Evolution of the Far-Ultraviolet Luminosity Density and the Cosmic Star Formation Rate

By David Schiminovich, O. Ilbert, Stéphane Arnouts, Bruno Milliard, L. Tresse, O. Fèvre, M. Treyer, T. Wyder, Tamás Budavári, Elena Zucca and 54 more. 2004

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In a companion Letter (Arnouts et al.) we present new measurements of the galaxy luminosity function at 1500 Å out to z ~ 1 using Galaxy Evolution Explorer VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey observations (1039 galaxies with NUV ≤ 24.5 and z > 0.2) and at higher z using existing data sets. In this Letter we use the same sample to study evolution of the FUV luminosity density ρ1500. We detect evolution consistent with a (1 + z)2.5±0.7 rise to z ~ 1 and (1 + z)0.5±0.4 for z > 1. The luminosity density from the most UV-luminous galaxies (UVLGs) is undergoing dramatic evolution (30 times) between 0 < z < 1. UVLGs are responsible for a significant fraction (>25%) of the total far-ultraviolet luminosity density at z ~ 1. We measure dust attenuation and star formation rates of our sample galaxies and determine the star formation rate density (⋆) as a function of redshift, both uncorrected and corrected for dust. We find good agreement with other measures of ⋆ in the rest ultraviolet and Hα given the still significant uncertainties in the attenuation correction.

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• Galaxies at z ~ 6: The UV Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density from 506 HUDF, HUDF Parallel ACS Field, and GOODS i-Dropouts (2005, methodology): “The dust corrections we have applied here are ∼ 2 times (0.4 mag) at z ∼ 6 and otherwise from Schiminovich et al. (2005).”
• The VISTA deep extragalactic observations (VIDEO) survey (2012, background): “However, these techniques are only sensitive to relatively unobscured systems, and are known to miss much of the luminosity density arising from galaxies at z 1 (e.g. Schiminovich et al. 2005; Magnelli et al. 2009).”
• SILVERRUSH. IV. Lyα luminosity functions at z = 5.7 and 6.6 studied with ∼1300 Lyα emitters on the 14–21 deg2 sky (2017, background): “The evolution of Lyα LFs is different from that of UV LFs, which increases from z ∼ 0 to z ∼ 2, and turns to the decrease beyond z & 3 (e.g., Schiminovich et al. 2005; Reddy & Steidel 2009; Bouwens et al. 2015b; see also Figure 7 of Konno et al. 2016).”
• ON THE REDSHIFT EVOLUTION OF THE Lyα ESCAPE FRACTION AND THE DUST CONTENT OF GALAXIES (2010, methodology): “…and consistency with higher redshift measurements, we also examine the z = 0.3 UV LFs of Arnouts et al. (2005), which we correct for dust using the method of Meurer et al. (1999) and the β slope measured by Schiminovich et al. (2005) in the same sample, finding extremely consistent numbers.”
• Star Formation in the Nearby Universe: The Ultraviolet and Infrared Points of View (2006, methodology): “…both wavelengths, attempts have been made using only the rest frame UV (Lilly et al. 1996; Madau et al. 1996; Steidel et al. 1999; and more recently Schiminovich et al. 2005 with GALEX data), or just FIR data (Rowan-Robinson et al. 1997; Chary & Elbaz 2001), but only a few authors have compared…”
• The Evolution of the Star Formation Activity in Galaxies and Its Dependence on Environment (2005, background): “INTRODUCTION The universe as a whole was more actively forming stars in the past than today (Lilly et al. 1996, Madau, Pozzetti & Dickinson 1998, Hopkins 2004, Schiminovich et al. 2005).”
• The SWIRE-VVDS-CFHTLS surveys: stellar mass assembly over the last 10 Gyr. Evidence for a major build up of the red sequence between z = 2 and z = 1 (2007, methodology): “The strong decline of the cosmic star formation rate (SFR) since z ∼ 1 is now well established (Schiminovich et al. 2005; Hopkins et al. 2006), and has been shown to be accompanied by a decrease of faint star forming galaxies and the decline of Based on data obtained with the European southern…”
• Simulations of Cosmic Chemical Enrichment (2006, methodology): “Rest-frame UV observations are plotted with dust correction with a factor of 2.7 for z < 2 and 4.7 for z > 2 (Steidel et al. 1999; Reddy & Steidel 2004), and dust-corrected Hα measurements are taken from Schiminovich et al. (2005).”