SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Barber T.
  2. Meiksin A.
  3. Murphy T.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The data are taken from the Luminous Red Galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4. From the SDSS spectra we compute the five indices Hbeta, Hgamma_F_, Dn(4000), [MgFe]', [Mg1Fe]'. These are matched indices from a synthetic library of spectra containing 31000 different star formation scenarios. From this we can infer probability distributions for a number of properties, such as age, metallicity, etc. The results are presented here as the 5th, 16th, 50th (median), 86th and 95th percentiles of the relevant distribution. The 4391 LRG properties presented here are chosen from the redshift range 0.15<z<0.4 and require all 5 of the above indices to have well-measured values (i.e. no contamination from skylines, bad pixels) Also given are a number of properties that come directly from the SDSS database, such as redshift, velocity dispersion etc. For the luminosity distance calculation (and subsequent mass estimates), we assume a FRW metric, with omega_m_=0.25, omega_lambda_=0.75 and H_0_=73km/s/Mpc.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. photometry
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. sloan-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2007MNRAS.377..787B
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/377/787
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/377/787
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.73770787

Access

Web browser access HTML
https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/377/787
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/377/787
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/377/787
IVOA Table Access TAP
https://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/377/787/lrgs?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/377/787/lrgs?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/377/787/lrgs?

History

2007-07-29T17:05:14Z
Resource record created
2007-07-29T17:05:14Z
Created
2024-07-04T20:18:21Z
Updated

Contact

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CDS support team
Postal Address
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