Journal article
The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Fundamental Plane data
Lachlan A Campbell, John R Lucey, Matthew Colless, D Heath Jones, Christopher M Springob, Christina Magoulas, Robert N Proctor, Jeremy R Mould, Mike A Read, Sarah Brough, Tom Jarrett, Alex I Merson, Philip Lah, Florian Beutler, Michelle E Cluver, Quentin A Parker
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2014
Abstract
We report the 6dFGS Fundamental Plane (6dFGSv) catalogue that is used to estimate distances and peculiar velocities for nearly 9000 early-type galaxies in the local (z < 0.055) universe. Velocity dispersions are derived by cross-correlation from 6dF V-band spectra with typical S/N of 12.9Å-1 for a sample of 11 315 galaxies; the median velocity dispersion is 163 km s-1 and the median measurement error is 12.9 per cent. The photometric Fundamental Plane (FP) parameters (effective radii and surface brightnesses) are determined from the JHK 2MASS images for 11 102 galaxies. Comparison of the independent J-and K-band measurements implies that the average uncertainty in XFP, the combined photometr..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the efforts of the staff of the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO), who developed the 6dF instrument and carried out the observations for the survey. This publication makes use of data products from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. This research has also made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. JRL acknowledges support from STFC via ST/I001573/1. DHJ acknowledges support from Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Grant DP-0208876, administered by the Australian National University. CM and JM acknowledge support from ARC Discovery Projects Grant DP-1092666. CM was also supported by a scholarship from the Australian Astronomical Observatory. We thank the anonymous referee for providing us with constructive and insightful comments which helped improve this manuscript.