Local luminosity functions of galaxies at (sub)millimeter wavelengths from Planck surveys
Abstract
The Planck all-sky surveys at (sub)millimeter wavelengths enable us to accurately determine the corresponding local luminosity functions up to the highest luminosities. The detected galaxies are strictly local, so evolutionary effects, which are known to be particularly strong at these wavelengths, are not a problem. However, previous studies have so far relied only on the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalog (ERCSC) for this purpose. Another important improvement over earlier estimates is the availability of complete all-sky catalogs of galaxies within hundreds of megaparsecs, with redshift-independent distances for nearby objects, for which redshifts are not reliable distance estimators. In this paper we re-estimate the (sub)millimeter local luminosity functions using data from the Second Planck Catalog of Compact Sources, which supersedes the previously used ERCSC and contains far more sources and more accurate photometry. We computed the luminosity functions using both the classical 1/Vmax and the nonparametric kernel density estimation (KDE) method, which overcomes limitations of binning techniques. Our implementation of the KDE uses the 1/Vmax weighting to account for survey selection effects. We obtain Planck-based local luminosity functions at 857, 545, 353, and 217 GHz, as well as the total IR luminosity function and the dust mass function. We find significant differences from earlier estimates and discuss their possible origins.
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BibTeX
@misc{bonato2026local,
title = {{Local luminosity functions of galaxies at (sub)millimeter wavelengths from Planck surveys}},
author = {Matteo Bonato and Gianfranco De Zotti},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = jul,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.24289},
eprint = {2607.24289},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24289},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Local luminosity functions of galaxies at (sub)millimeter wavelengths from Planck surveys
AU - Matteo Bonato
AU - Gianfranco De Zotti
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/07/27
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.24289
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24289
AB - The Planck all-sky surveys at (sub)millimeter wavelengths enable us to accurately determine the corresponding local luminosity functions up to the highest luminosities. The detected galaxies are strictly local, so evolutionary effects, which are known to be particularly strong at these wavelengths, are not a problem. However, previous studies have so far relied only on the Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalog (ERCSC) for this purpose. Another important improvement over earlier estimates is the availability of complete all-sky catalogs of galaxies within hundreds of megaparsecs, with redshift-independent distances for nearby objects, for which redshifts are not reliable distance estimators. In this paper we re-estimate the (sub)millimeter local luminosity functions using data from the Second Planck Catalog of Compact Sources, which supersedes the previously used ERCSC and contains far more sources and more accurate photometry. We computed the luminosity functions using both the classical 1/V_max and the nonparametric kernel density estimation (KDE) method, which overcomes limitations of binning techniques. Our implementation of the KDE uses the 1/V_max weighting to account for survey selection effects. We obtain Planck-based local luminosity functions at 857, 545, 353, and 217 GHz, as well as the total IR luminosity function and the dust mass function. We find significant differences from earlier estimates and discuss their possible origins.
ER -