PHOTOMETRIC PROPERTIES AND LUMINOSITY FUNCTION OF NEARBY MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 773; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12
• Main Authors: He, Y Q, Xia, X Y, Hao, C N, Jing, Y P, Mao, S, Li, Cheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 10.08.2013
• Subjects: ALGORITHMS; Assembly; ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; CLASSIFICATION; DENSITY; FORECASTING; GALAXIES; LUMINOSITY; MASS; Mathematical models; PHOTOMETRY; RED SHIFT; Sky surveys (astronomy); VISIBLE RADIATION

We perform photometric analyses of a bright early-type galaxy sample with 2949 galaxies (M sub(r) < -22.5 mag) in the redshift range of 0.05-0.15, drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR7 with morphological classification from Galaxy Zoo 1. We measure the Petrosian and isophotal magnitu...