Isophotal Shapes of Elliptical/S0 Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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2006-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605319v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:1339-1350,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

25 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Revised to match the final version accepted for publication in MNRAS.

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10545.x

We revisit the shapes of isophotes for elliptical (E) and lenticular (S0) galaxies by studying 847 nearby early-type galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 with velocity dispersions above 200 km/s. The IRAF task {\tt ellipse} was used to derive the deviations of the isophotes from pure ellipses (Fourier coefficients a_3/a and a_4/a), position angles and ellipticities as a function of radius. We show the statistical distributions of the a_3/a and a_4/a parameters as a function of velocity dispersion, magnitude, and colour. The a_4/a parameter is correlated with the ellipticity and absolute Petrosian magnitude of galaxies. No significant correlation was found between the a_4/a parameter with colour and velocity dispersion. A cross-correlation between the FIRST survey and the SDSS data reveals a lack of powerful radio emitters in discy E/S0s, as previously found by Bender et al. We also find that boxy E/S0s favor denser environments while discy E/S0s favor more isolated environments. The median values of changes in the ellipticity and position angle between one and one and a half Petrosian half-light radii in the isophotes are about -0.023 and 1.61 degree respectively. The average change in the position angle is much larger, about 4.12 degree, due to an extended tail. The change in ellipticity is weakly correlated with the ellipticity itself, with an increasing ellipticity for galaxies with higher ellipticity as the radius increases. The isophote parameters for the 847 galaxies are available online.

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