2007/04/13 by M. Fukugita, Masataka Fukugita, Osamu Nakamura +13 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/518962
published as Astron.J.134:579-593,2007 · Accepted for publication in Astronomical Journal. Table 2 available at http://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~fukugita/MCGpaper/table2.txt
arxiv created 2007/04/13 · openalex publication_date 2007/06/08 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
We present a catalog of morphologically classified bright galaxies in the north equatorial stripe (230 deg 2 ) derived from the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Morphological classification is performed by visual inspection of images in the g band. The catalog contains 2253 galaxies complete to a magnitude limit of r = 16 after Galactic extinction correction, selected from 2658 objects that are judged to be extended in the photometric catalog in the same magnitude limit. A total of 1866 galaxies in our catalog have spectroscopic information. A brief statistical analysis is presented for the frequency of morphological types and mean colors in the catalog. A visual inspection of the images reveals that the rate of interacting galaxies in the local universe is approximately 1.5% in the r ≤ 16 sample. A verification is made for the photometric catalog generated by the SDSS, especially as to its bright-end completeness.