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The rest-frame K-band luminosity function of galaxies in clusters to z=1.3

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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 133, Issue 5, Pages 2209-2215

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/513516

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galaxies : evolution; galaxies : formation; galaxies : luminosity function, mass function

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We derive the rest-frame K-band luminosity function for galaxies in 32 clusters at 0: 6 < z < 1: 3 using deep 3.6 and 4.5 mu m imaging from the Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Array Camera. The luminosity functions approximate the stellar mass function of the cluster galaxies. Their dependence on redshift indicates that massive cluster galaxies ( to the characteristic luminosityM(K)(*)) are fully assembled at least at z similar to 1.3 and that little significant accretion takes place at later times. The existence of massive, highly evolved galaxies at these epochs is likely to represent a significant challenge to theories of hierarchical structure formation where such objects are formed by the late accretion of spheroidal systems at z < 1.

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