Smithsonian Hectospec Lensing Survey (SHELS) is a dense redshift survey covering a 4deg^2^ region to a limiting R=20.6. In the construction of the galaxy catalog and in the acquisition of spectroscopic targets, we paid careful attention to the survey completeness for lower surface brightness dwarf galaxies. Thus, although the survey covers a small area, it is a robust basis for computation of the slope of the faint end of the galaxy luminosity function to a limiting M_R_=-13.3+5logh. We calculate the faint-end slope in the R band for the subset of SHELS galaxies with redshifts in the range 0.02<=z<0.1, SHELS_0.1_. This sample contains 532 galaxies with R=22.5mag/arcsec^2^ is unique to SHELS_0.1_. The faint-end slope is {alpha}22.5=-1.52+/-0.16. SHELS_0.1_ shows that lower surface brightness objects dominate the faint-end slope of the luminosity function in the field, underscoring the importance of surface brightness limits in evaluating measurements of the faint-end slope and its evolution.

Cone search capability for table J/AJ/143/102/table2 (*Low-redshift candidate list)

Cone search capability for table J/AJ/143/102/table1 (SHELS_0.1_ redshifts (Smithsonian Hectospec Lensing Survey))