Detailed morphology of SDSS galaxies Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Nair P.B.
  2. Abraham R.G.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a catalog of detailed visual classifications for 14034 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 4 (DR4, Cat. <II/267>). Our sample includes nearly all spectroscopically targeted galaxies in the redshift range 0.01<z<0.1 down to an apparent extinction-corrected limit of g<16mag. In addition to T-Types, we record the existence of bars, rings, lenses, tails, warps, dust lanes, arm flocculence, and multiplicity. This sample defines a comprehensive local galaxy sample which we will use in future papers to study low-redshift morphology. It will also prove useful for calibrating automated galaxy classification algorithms. In this paper, we describe the classification methodology used, detail the systematics and biases of our sample, and summarize the overall statistical properties of the sample, noting the most obvious trends that are relevant for general comparisons of our catalog with previously published work.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. catalogs
  3. galaxy-classification-systems
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. sloan-photometry
  6. redshifted
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2010ApJS..186..427N
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/186/427
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/186/427
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21860427

Access

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http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/186/427
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IVOA Cone Search SCS
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https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/186/427/table2?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/186/427/table2?

History

2010-05-31T17:59:48Z
Resource record created
2010-05-31T17:59:48Z
Created
2026-07-29T06:27:17Z
Updated

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