Local Galaxy Luminosity Function

In the spring of 2025, I was tasked with generating a luminosity function of local galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This project was completed for my Astronomy 32 class, Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is a dataset containing information about galaxies surrounding the Milky Way. Using Python, a partner and I parsed the data and generated plots necessary to probe the structure of the universe, addressing biases and issues in the data as we went along. The final report is shown below.