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Ages and Metallicities of Early-Type Void Galaxies from Line Strength Measurements
Gary Wegner, Norman A. Grogin
We present spectroscopic observations of 26 galaxies of type E and S0, based on their blue morphologies, located in voids by the study of Grogin & Geller (1999). Measurements of re…
Spatially resolved spectroscopy of Coma cluster early-type galaxies IV. Completing the dataset
E. M. Corsini, G. Wegner, R. P. Saglia +3
The long-slit spectra obtained along the minor axis, offset major axis and diagonal axis are presented for 12 E and S0 galaxies of the Coma cluster drawn from a magnitude-limited s…
The NOAO Fundamental Plane Survey - III. Variations in the stellar populations of red-sequence galaxies from the cluster core to the virial radius
Russell J. Smith, Michael J. Hudson, John R. Lucey +2
We analyse absorption line-strength indices for ~3000 red-sequence galaxies in 94 nearby clusters, to investigate systematic variations of their stellar content with location in th…
NOAO Fundamental Plane Survey -- II. Age and Metallicity along the Red Sequence
Jenica E. Nelan, Russell J. Smith, Michael J. Hudson +5
We present spectroscopic linestrength data for 4097 red-sequence galaxies in 93 low-redshift galaxy clusters, and use these to investigate variations in average stellar populations…
The Oxford-Dartmouth Thirty Degree Survey II: Clustering of Bright Lyman Break Galaxies - Strong Luminosity Dependent Bias at z=4
Paul D. Allen, Leonidas A. Moustakas, Gavin Dalton +5
We present measurements of the clustering properties of bright () z4 Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) selected from the Oxford-Dartmouth Thirty Degree Survey (ODT). We de…
Structural properties of discs and bulges of early-type galaxies
Roelof S. de Jong, Luc Simard, Roger L. Davies +5
We have used the EFAR sample of galaxies to study the light distributions of early-type galaxies. We decompose the 2D light distribution of the galaxies in a flattened spheroidal c…
The Oxford-Dartmouth Thirty Degree Survey I: Observations and Calibration of a Wide-Field Multi-Band Survey
Emily C. MacDonald, Paul Allen, Gavin Dalton +13
The Oxford Dartmouth Thirty Degree Survey (ODTS) is a deep, wide, multi-band imaging survey designed to cover a total of 30 square degrees in BVRi'Z, with a subset of U and K band…
Redshift-Distance Survey of Early-Type Galaxies: Spectroscopic Data
G. Wegner, M. Bernardi, C. N. A. Wilmer +5
We present central velocity dispersions and Mg line indices for an all-sky sample of 1178 elliptical and S0 galaxies, of which 984 had no previous measures. This sample…
Mass Profile of the Infall Region of the Abell 2199 Supercluster
K. Rines, M. J. Geller, A. Diaferio +3
Using a redshift survey of 1323 galaxies (1092 new or remeasured) in a region of 95 square degrees centered on the nearby galaxy cluster Abell 2199, we analyze the supercluster con…
Redshift-distance Survey of Early-type Galaxies: the ENEARc Cluster Sample
M. Bernardi, M. V. Alonso, L. N. da Costa +5
This paper presents data on the ENEARc subsample of the larger ENEAR survey of the nearby early-type galaxies. The ENEARc galaxies belong to clusters and were specifically chosen t…
The WARPS Survey: VI. Galaxy Cluster and Source Identifications from Phase I
E. S. Perlman, D. J. Horner, L. R. Jones +4
We present in catalog form the optical identifications for objects from the first phase of the Wide Angle ROSAT Pointed Survey (WARPS). WARPS is a serendipitous survey of relativel…
Redshifts for 2410 Galaxies in the Century Survey Region
G. Wegner, J. R. Thorstensen, M. J. Kurtz +6
The `Century Survey' strip covers 102 square degrees within the limits 8.5h \leq α_{1950} \leq 16.5h, 29.0 degrees \leq δ_{1950} \leq 30.0 degrees. The strip passes through the Cor…
Comparing the SFI Peculiar Velocities with the PSCz Gravity Field: a VELMOD analysis
E. Branchini, W. Freudling, L. N. Da Costa +6
We compare the peculiar velocities derived from the I-band Tully-Fisher (TF) relation for 989 field spiral galaxies in the SFI catalogue with the predicted velocity field derived f…
X-ray Emitting Groups in the Infall Region of Abell 2199
K. Rines, A. Mahdavi, M. J. Geller +3
Using a large redshift survey covering 95 square degrees, we demonstrate that the infall region of Abell 2199 contains Abell 2197, one or two X-ray emitting groups, and up to five…
The Peculiar Motions of Early-Type Galaxies in Two Distant Regions VI: The Maximum Likelihood Gaussian Algorithm
R. P. Saglia, Matthew Colless, David Burstein +3
The EFAR project is designed to measure the properties and peculiar motions of early-type galaxies in two distant regions. Here we describe the maximum likelihood algorithm we deve…
The X-ray evolution of clusters of galaxies to z=0.9
L. R. Jones, H. Ebeling, C. Scharf +6
The evolution of the X-ray luminosity function of clusters of galaxies has been measured to z=0.9 using over 150 X-ray selected clusters discovered in the WARPS survey. We find no…
The peculiar motions of early-type galaxies in two distant regions - VII. Peculiar velocities and bulk motions
Matthew Colless, R. P. Saglia, D. Burstein +3
We present peculiar velocities for 84 clusters of galaxies in two large volumes at distances between 6000 and 15000 km/s in the directions of Hercules-Corona Borealis and Perseus-P…
The Infall Region of Abell 576: Independent Mass and Light Profiles
K. Rines, M. J. Geller, A. Diaferio +2
We describe observations of the nearby cluster of galaxies A576 beyond the virial radius and into the infall region. Using 1057 redshifts, we use the infall pattern in redshift spa…
Comparison of the ENEAR Peculiar Velocities with the PSCz Gravity Field
Adi Nusser, Luiz N. da Costa, Enzo Branchini +5
We present a comparison between the peculiar velocity field measured from the ENEAR all-sky catalog and that derived from the galaxy distribution of the IRAS PSCz redshift…
ENEAR Redshift-Distance Survey: Cosmological Constraints
S. Borgani, M. Bernardi, L. N. da Costa +5
We present an analysis of the ENEAR sample of peculiar velocities of elliptical galaxies, obtained with D_n-σdistances. We use the velocity correlation function to analyze the stat…
The WARPS survey - IV: The X-ray luminosity-temperature relation of high redshift galaxy clusters
B. W. Fairley, L. R. Jones, C. Scharf +5
We present a measurement of the cluster X-ray luminosity-temperature relation out to high redshift (z~0.8). Combined ROSAT PSPC spectra of 91 galaxy clusters detected in the Wide A…
Redshift-Distance Survey of Early-type Galaxies. I. Sample Selection, Properties and Completeness
L. N. da Costa, M. Bernardi, M. V. Alonso +5
This is the first in a series of papers describing the recently completed all-sky redshift-distance survey of nearby early-type galaxies (ENEAR) carried out for peculiar velocity a…
Redshift-Distance Survey of Early-Type Galaxies. IV. Dipoles of the Velocity Field
L. N. da Costa, M. Bernardi, M. V. Alonso +5
We use the recently completed redshift-distance survey of nearby early-type galaxies (ENEAR) to measure the dipole component of the peculiar velocity field to a depth of cz ~ 6000…
Fundamental Plane Distances to Early-type Field Galaxies in the South Equatorial Strip. I. The Spectroscopic Data
K. R. Müller, G. Wegner, W. Freudling
Radial velocities and central velocity dispersions are derived for 238 E/S0 galaxies from medium-resolution spectroscopy. New spectroscopic data have been obtained as part of a stu…