Luminosity and stellar mass selection as a function of redshift. The black dots show the W1 and W4 VIPERS galaxies. Yellow lines surround the selected sub-samples. Solid lines show the 90% completeness levels for the whole galaxy population (cyan lines) and for galaxies of four different photometric types: red E/Sa (red lines), early spiral (orange lines), late spiral (green lines), and irregular or starburst (blue lines). The B-band rest-frame magnitude limits in the left panel account for the average luminosity evolution of galaxies, as explained in the text. On the bottom axes, z_eq,Λ ~ 0.44 is the redshift of DM-DE equality and z_acc ~ 0.82 is the redshift when the Universe started accelerating, according to ΛCDM predictions with the set of cosmological parameters adopted in this work.