• DOI:10.3847/0004-637X/830/2/83
Corpus ID: 17424588

THE EVOLUTION OF GALAXY NUMBER DENSITY AT z < 8 AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

@article{Conselice2016THEEO,
  title={THE EVOLUTION OF GALAXY NUMBER DENSITY AT z < 8 AND ITS IMPLICATIONS},
  author={C. Conselice and A. Wilkinson and K. Duncan and A. Mortlock},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2016},
  volume={830},
  pages={83}
}

C. Conselice, A. Wilkinson, +1 author A. Mortlock

Published 2016

Physics

The Astrophysical Journal

The evolution of the number density of galaxies in the universe, and thus also the total number of galaxies, is a fundamental question with implications for a host of astrophysical problems including galaxy evolution and cosmology. However there has never been a detailed study of this important measurement, nor a clear path to answer it. To address this we use observed galaxy stellar mass functions up to z _ 8 to determine how the number densities of galaxies changes as a function of time and… CONTINUE READING

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