... survey

Appendices A and B are only available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org

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... VVDS

We have not applied any explicit quality cut on the VVDS redshifts. However due to the requirement of the presence of OII emission line for an LCG, we have a sample of objects with very robust redshift measurements, with $\sim$2/3 of the objects having redshift with better than 95% confidence, and all but 2 objects having redshifts with better than 75% confidence.

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... complete

In order to see how the completeness curves were estimated, refer to Giavalisco et al. (2004).

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... variation

For a more detailed discussion of the red halo effect on the F850LP PSF stars used by us and how we dealt with it, see Appendix B.

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... first run

The median distance from the sample galaxy to the nearest PSF star is 48 $^{\prime \prime }$ while the median distance to the second nearest PSF star is 80 $^{\prime \prime }$.

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... IRAF

IRAF is distributed by the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, which are operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.

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