Deep spectroscopy of Abell 85

Using the Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope and the AutoFiber 2 at the William Herschel Telescope, we obtained almost 1430 new redshifts for galaxies with m_r_<=21mag and <{mu}_e,r_><=24mag/arcsec^2^. These redshifts, together with Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6 and NASA/IPAC Extragaalctic Database spectroscopic information, result in 460 confirmed cluster members.

This data set allows the study of the luminosity function (LF) of the cluster galaxies covering three orders of magnitudes in luminosities. The total and radial LFs are best modelled by a double Schechter function. The normalized LFs show that their bright (M_r_<=-21.5) and faint (M_r_>=-18.0) ends are independent of clustercentric distance and similar to the field LFs unlike the intermediate luminosity range (-21.5<=M_r_<=-18.0).