LAE galaxies between 2.1=<z<=3.1

We confirm earlier measurements of the z=3.1 LAE emission-line luminosity function and show that an apparent anticorrelation between EW and continuum brightness is likely due to the effect of correlated errors in our heteroskedastic data set. Finally, we compare the properties of z=3.1 LAEs to LAEs found at z=2.1. We show that in the ~1Gyr after z~3, the LAE luminosity function evolved significantly, with L* fading by ~0.4mag, the number density of sources with L>1.5x10^42^erg/s declining by ~50%, and the EW scale length contracting from 70^+7^_-5_{AA} to 50^+9^_-6_{AA}.

When combined with literature results, our observations demonstrate that over the redshift range z~0 to z~4, LAEs contain less than ~10% of the star formation rate density of the universe.