Early-type galaxies in the sloan digital sky survey. I. The sample

Mariangela Bernardi; Ravi K. Sheth; James Annis; Scott Burles; Daniel J. Eisenstein; Douglas P. Finkbeiner; David W. Hogg; Robert H. Lupton; David J. Schlegel; Mark Subbarao; Neta A. Bahcall; John P. Blakeslee; J. Brinkmann; Francisco J. Castander; Andrew J. Connolly; István Csabai; Mamoru Doi; Masataka Fukugita; Joshua Frieman; Timothy Heckman; Gregory S. Hennessy; Željko Ivezić; G. R. Knapp; Don Q. Lamb; Timothy McKAY; Jeffrey A. Munn; Robert Nichol; Sadanori Okamura; Donald P. Schneider; Aniruddha R. Thakar; Donald G. York

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Early-type galaxies in the sloan digital sky survey. I. The sample

Mariangela Bernardi, Ravi K. Sheth, James Annis, Scott Burles, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, David W. Hogg, Robert H. Lupton, David J. Schlegel, Mark Subbarao, Neta A. Bahcall, John P. Blakeslee, J. Brinkmann, Francisco J. Castander, Andrew J. Connolly, István Csabai, Mamoru Doi, Masataka Fukugita, Joshua Frieman, Timothy HeckmanGregory S. Hennessy, Željko Ivezić, G. R. Knapp, Don Q. Lamb, Timothy McKAY, Jeffrey A. Munn, Robert Nichol, Sadanori Okamura, Donald P. Schneider, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Donald G. York

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A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 ≤ z ≤ 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using morphological and spectral criteria. This paper describes how the sample was selected, presents examples of images and seeing-corrected fits to the observed surface brightness profiles, describes our method for estimating K-corrections, and shows that the SDSS spectra are of sufficiently high quality to measure velocity dispersions accurately. It also provides catalogs of the measured photometric and spectroscopic parameters. In related papers, these data are used to study how early-type galaxy observables, including luminosity, effective radius, surface brightness, color, and velocity dispersion, are correlated with one another.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1817-1848
Number of pages	32
Journal	Astronomical Journal
Volume	125
Issue number	4 1768
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/367776
State	Published - Apr 2003

Keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: fundamental parameters
Galaxies: photometry
Galaxies: stellar content

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Annis, J., Burles, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., Hogg, D. W., Lupton, R. H., Schlegel, D. J., Subbarao, M., Bahcall, N. A., Blakeslee, J. P., Brinkmann, J., Castander, F. J., Connolly, A. J., Csabai, I., Doi, M., Fukugita, M., Frieman, J., ... York, D. G. (2003). Early-type galaxies in the sloan digital sky survey. I. The sample. Astronomical Journal, 125(4 1768), 1817-1848. https://doi.org/10.1086/367776

Bernardi, M, Sheth, RK, Annis, J, Burles, S, Eisenstein, DJ, Finkbeiner, DP, Hogg, DW, Lupton, RH, Schlegel, DJ, Subbarao, M, Bahcall, NA, Blakeslee, JP, Brinkmann, J, Castander, FJ, Connolly, AJ, Csabai, I, Doi, M, Fukugita, M, Frieman, J, Heckman, T, Hennessy, GS, Ivezić, Ž, Knapp, GR, Lamb, DQ, McKAY, T, Munn, JA, Nichol, R, Okamura, S, Schneider, DP, Thakar, AR & York, DG 2003, 'Early-type galaxies in the sloan digital sky survey. I. The sample', Astronomical Journal, vol. 125, no. 4 1768, pp. 1817-1848. https://doi.org/10.1086/367776

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