TY - JOUR
T1 - Early-type galaxies in the sloan digital sky survey. I. The sample
AU - Bernardi, Mariangela
AU - Sheth, Ravi K.
AU - Annis, James
AU - Burles, Scott
AU - Eisenstein, Daniel J.
AU - Finkbeiner, Douglas P.
AU - Hogg, David W.
AU - Lupton, Robert H.
AU - Schlegel, David J.
AU - Subbarao, Mark
AU - Bahcall, Neta A.
AU - Blakeslee, John P.
AU - Brinkmann, J.
AU - Castander, Francisco J.
AU - Connolly, Andrew J.
AU - Csabai, István
AU - Doi, Mamoru
AU - Fukugita, Masataka
AU - Frieman, Joshua
AU - Heckman, Timothy
AU - Hennessy, Gregory S.
AU - Ivezić, Željko
AU - Knapp, G. R.
AU - Lamb, Don Q.
AU - McKAY, Timothy
AU - Munn, Jeffrey A.
AU - Nichol, Robert
AU - Okamura, Sadanori
AU - Schneider, Donald P.
AU - Thakar, Aniruddha R.
AU - York, Donald G.
PY - 2003/4
Y1 - 2003/4
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD
KW - Galaxies: evolution
KW - Galaxies: fundamental parameters
KW - Galaxies: photometry
KW - Galaxies: stellar content
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U2 - 10.1086/367776
DO - 10.1086/367776
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0041827738
SN - 0004-6256
VL - 125
SP - 1817
EP - 1848
JO - Astronomical Journal
JF - Astronomical Journal
IS - 4 1768
ER -