Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-07-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
25 pages, 19 figures, 3 tables in emulateapj style. Accepted for publication in ApJS. Full catalogs to appear in ApJS and also
Scientific paper
We perform two-dimensional, Point-Spread-Function-convolved, bulge+disk decompositions in the $g$ and $r$ bandpasses on a sample of 1,123,718 galaxies from the Legacy area of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Seven. Four different decomposition procedures are investigated which make improvements to sky background determinations and object deblending over the standard SDSS procedures that lead to more robust structural parameters and integrated galaxy magnitudes and colors, especially in crowded environments. We use a set of science-based quality assurance metrics namely the disk luminosity-size relation, the galaxy color-magnitude diagram and the galaxy central (fiber) colors to show the robustness of our structural parameters. The best procedure utilizes simultaneous, two-bandpass decompositions. Bulge and disk photometric errors remain below 0.1 mag down to bulge and disk magnitudes of $g \simeq 19$ and $r \simeq 18.5$. We also use and compare three different galaxy fitting models: a pure Sersic model, a $n_b=4$ bulge + disk model and a Sersic (free $n_b$) bulge + disk model. The most appropriate model for a given galaxy is determined by the $F$-test probability. All three catalogs of measured structural parameters, rest-frame magnitudes and colors are publicly released here. These catalogs should provide an extensive comparison set for a wide range of observational and theoretical studies of galaxies.
Ellison Sara L.
McConnachie Alan W.
Mendel Trevor J.
Patton David R.
Simard Luc
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