Mariangela Bernardi et al. 2003 The Astronomical Journal 125 1866 doi:10.1086/367794
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 Frieman, 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 magnitude-limited 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. The fundamental plane relation in this sample is Ro ∝ σ1.49±0.05I
in the r* band. It is approximately the same in the g*, i*, and z* bands. Relative to the population at the median redshift in the sample, galaxies at lower and higher redshifts have evolved only a little. If the fundamental plane is used to quantify this evolution, then the apparent magnitude limit can masquerade as evolution; once this selection effect has been accounted for, the evolution is consistent with that of a passively evolving population that formed the bulk of its stars about 9 Gyr ago. One of the principal advantages of the SDSS sample over previous samples is that the galaxies in it lie in environments ranging from isolation in the field to the dense cores of clusters. The fundamental plane shows that galaxies in dense regions are slightly different from galaxies in less dense regions.
galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: fundamental parameters; galaxies: photometry; galaxies: stellar content
Issue 4 (2003 April)
Received 2002 September 27, accepted for publication 2002 December 3
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