LAE sample of the first 24 MW pointings in redshift-luminosity space. The dashed line represents the 85% RSSF completeness limit, while the black line denotes the 15% RSSF completeness limit at which we truncate our sample leaving 179 of 237 (75.6%) LAEs. Individual emitters are colour-coded according to their assigned confidence flags (blue: little to no doubt on being an LAE; green: LAEs flagged as uncertain; for details on assigning the confidence values, see Sect. 3.2 of H017). The two highest L_Lyα objects are AGN indicated by red symbols. Sources below the truncation line are shown with open symbols. Horizontal dotted lines denote the adopted bin boundaries (logL_Lyα, bin[erg s⁻¹]=42.2 + i × 0.2 for i = 0, 1, …, 5) for the binned LAE LF estimates.