Bulge+disk decompositions of SDSS galaxies (Simard+, 2011)

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Nov 2011

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VizieR On-line Data Catalog: J/ApJS/196/11. Originally published in: 2011ApJS..196...11S

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Galaxies: Optical, Photometry: Sdss, Models: Evolutionary, Surveys, Galaxy Catalogs, Morphology

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We perform two-dimensional, point-spread-function-convolved, bulge+disk decompositions in the g and r bandpasses on a sample of 1123718 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 0.1mag down to bulge and disk magnitudes of g~19 and r~18.5. We also use and compare three different galaxy fitting models: a pure Sersic model, an nb=4 bulge+disk model, and a Sersic (free nb) 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.
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