The HerMES SPIRE submillimeter local luminosity function

Local luminosity functionsare fundamental benchmarks for high-redshift galaxy formationand evolutionstudies as well as for models describing these processes. Determining the local luminosity functionin the submillimeter range can help to better constrain in particular the bolometric luminositydensity in the local Universe, and Herschel offers the first opportunity to do so in an unbiased way by imaging large sky areas at several submillimeter wavelengths. We present the first Herschel measurement of the submillimeter 0