Photometric properties and luminosity function of nearby massive early-type galaxies

Y. Q. He, X. Y. Xia, C. N. Hao +3

We perform photometric analyses for a bright early-type galaxy (ETG) sample with 2949 galaxies ($M_{\mathrm{r}}<-22.5$ mag) in the redshift range of 0.05 to 0.15, drawn from the SDSS DR…