Mariangela Bernardi et al. 2003 The Astronomical Journal 125 1817 doi:10.1086/367776
Mariangela Bernardi1,2, Ravi K. Sheth3,4, James Annis3, Scott Burles3, Daniel J. Eisenstein5, Douglas P. Finkbeiner6,7,8, David W. Hogg9, Robert H. Lupton7, David J. Schlegel7, Mark SubbaRao1, Neta A. Bahcall7, John P. Blakeslee10, J. Brinkmann11, Francisco J. Castander12,13, Andrew J. Connolly4, István Csabai10,14, Mamoru Doi15,16, Masataka Fukugita17,18, Joshua Frieman1,3, Timothy Heckman10, Gregory S. Hennessy19, Željko Ivezić7, G. R. Knapp7, Don Q. Lamb1, Timothy McKay20, Jeffrey A. Munn19, Robert Nichol2, Sadanori Okamura16,21, Donald P. Schneider22, Aniruddha R. Thakar10 and Donald G. York1
Show affiliationsA 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.
galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: fundamental parameters; galaxies: photometry; galaxies: stellar content
Issue 4 (2003 April)
Received 2001 October 15, accepted for publication 2002 December 3
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