Redshift versus UV absolute magnitude (M₁₅₀₀) for spectroscopically confirmed SFGs at 2 < z < 2.5 from VUDS. The median M₁₅₀₀ of the sample is –20.22 mag, the median redshift is 2.320. The quoted uncertainties are the errors on the median () estimated from the 1σ dispersion of the distribution and the total number of galaxies, where ±1σ corresponds to the range between the 16th and the 84th percentile values of the distribution. The red solid line indicates the evolving M^∗ (characteristic magnitude) as a function of redshift as derived from the compilation of Hathi et al. (2010). The dashed red lines indicate M^∗ ± 1 mag. The black solid curve on the histogram is the kernel density estimation (KDE) of the distribution, which is a smoother non-parametric density estimator compared to the histogram and is not affected by the bin-size or the end points of the bins. The density of points is color-coded as shown in the color-bar.