articleThe Astrophysical JournalAug 20, 2003BRONZE OA

The Broadband Optical Properties of Galaxies with Redshifts 0.02 <  z  < 0.22

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Abstract

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 Sersic 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 signal-to-noise ratio: the color-color relations of galaxies, the color-magnitude relations, the magnitude-surface brightness relation, and the dependence of density on color and absolute magnitude. We show that most of the…

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Keywords
  • Astrophysics
  • Physics
  • Absolute magnitude
  • Surface brightness fluctuation
  • Magnitude (astronomy)
  • Photometry (optics)
  • Galaxy
  • Luminous infrared galaxy
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