%0 Journal Article
%A Barro, Guillermo
%A Gallego Maestro, Jesús
%A Pérez González, Pablo Guillermo
%A Eliche Moral, María del Carmen
%A Balcells, M.
%A Villar, V.
%A Cardiel López, Nicolás
%A Cristobal Hornillos, D.
%A Gil De Paz, Armando
%A Guzmán, R.
%A Pelló, R.
%A Prieto, M.
%A Zamorano Calvo, Jaime
%T Deconstructing the K-band number counts
%D 2010
%@ 1570-6591
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43001
%X We present a study that links the NCs to the rest-frame luminosity functions (LFs) at the passbands probed by the observed K-band at different epochs. Making use of a large K-band selected sample in the Groth Field, HDFN and CDFS (∼0.27deg^(2)), we have derived highly reliable photometric redshift estimates that allow us to estimate LFs in the redshift range [0.25-1.25]. We find that the larger flattening in the slope of the K-band NCs is mostly a consequence of a prominent decrease in the characteristic density (φ∗) around z∼1, and an almost flat evolution of M∗.
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