Much can be learned about the formation of galaxies by taking a census of the present-day population. As a first step towards such an endeavour, I present luminosity and surface brightness distributions of 36 659 galaxies with K-band photometry from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS) Data Release 3 and optical photometry from Data Release 5 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:488573 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Smith, Anthony |
| Publisher | University of Sussex |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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