Structural Properties of Early-Type Galaxies from the SDSS DR2

作     者：Feng-Shan Liu Zu-Gan Deng Hong Wu Xiao-Yang Xia 

作者机构：National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100012 China Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China Department of Physics Tianjin Normal University Tianjin 300074 China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics》 (中国天文和天体物理学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2008年第8卷第5期

页      面：503-521页

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学科分类：07[理学] 070401[理学-天体物理] 0704[理学-天文学] 

基　　金：the National Natural Science Foundation of China 

主　　题：galaxies elliptical and lenticular, cD -galaxies photometry -galaxies structure - galaxies 

摘      要：Two-dimensional bulge/disk light decomposition with GIM2D in both the r- and g-bands has been applied to a sample of 129 early-type galaxies brighter than 13.5 magnitude in the r-band, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 2. Intensity-weighted Fourier coefficient （α4/α） was also derived for each sample galaxy. Our analysis shows that there are correlations between bulge-to-total light ratio （B/T） with bulge Sersic index nB and between bulge and disk scale sizes. Isophotal shape parameter （α4/α） is not correlated with BIT and riB. Both bulge and disk components satisfy a color-magnitude relation. The space Fundamental Plane analysis shows that galaxies with larger B/T tend to lie tighter and closer to the line of k1 ＋ k2 = 8 （the so-called ＂zone of avoidance＂） than the galaxies with smaller B/T. It indicates that existence of the disk component may lead to scatter of the distribution on the Fundamental Plane. Our analysis also shows that k1 ＋ k2 correlates with （g-r） color and B/T, but does not correlate with （α4/α） for early-type galaxies. The fitted parameters and other retrieved parameters used in this paper for all sample galaxies are available online.