The Broadband Optical Properties of Galaxies with Redshifts 0.02 < z < 0.22
@article{Blanton2003TheBO, title={The Broadband Optical Properties of Galaxies with Redshifts 0.02 < z < 0.22}, author={Michael R. Blanton and David W. Hogg and Neta A. Bahcall and Ivan K. Baldry and Jonathan Brinkmann and Istv{\'a}n Csabai and Daniel J. Eisenstein and Masataka Fukugita and James E. Gunn and Željko Ivezi{\'c} and Donald Q. Lamb and Robert H. Lupton and Jon Loveday and Jeffrey A. Munn and Robert C. Nichol and Sadanori Okamura and David J. Schlegel and Kazuhiro Shimasaku and Michael A. Strauss and Michael S. E. Vogeley and David H. Weinberg}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2003}, volume={594}, pages={186 - 207} }
Using photometry and spectroscopy of 183,487 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we present bivariate distributions of pairs of seven galaxy properties: four optical colors, surface brightness, radial profile shape as measured by the Sérsic index, and absolute magnitude. In addition, we present the dependence of local galaxy density (smoothed on 8 h-1 Mpc scales) on all of these properties. Several classic, well-known relations among galaxy properties are evident at extremely high…
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