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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 125, Issue 4, Pages 1817-1848Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1086/367776
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galaxies : elliptical and lenticular, cD; galaxies : evolution; galaxies : fundamental parameters; galaxies : photometry; galaxies : stellar content
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A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 less than or equal to z less than or equal to 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.
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