Oxford University Press, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2(417), p. 1510-1533, 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19363.x
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We present the first direct and unbiased measurement of the evolution of the dust mass function of galaxies over the past 5 billion years of cosmic history using data from the Science Demonstration Phase of the Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (Herschel-ATLAS). The sample consists of galaxies selected at 250 m which have reliable counterparts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) at z