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Published September 11, 2014 | Supplemental Material + Submitted + Published
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The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Fundamental Plane data

Abstract

We report the 6dFGS Fundamental Plane (6dFGSv) catalogue that is used to estimate distances and peculiar velocities for nearly 9000 early-type galaxies in the local (z < 0.055) universe. Velocity dispersions are derived by cross-correlation from 6dF V-band spectra with typical S/N of 12.9 Å^(−1) for a sample of 11 315 galaxies; the median velocity dispersion is 163 km s^(−1) and the median measurement error is 12.9 per cent. The photometric Fundamental Plane (FP) parameters (effective radii and surface brightnesses) are determined from the JHK 2MASS images for 11 102 galaxies. Comparison of the independent J- and K-band measurements implies that the average uncertainty in X_(FP), the combined photometric parameter that enters the FP, is 0.013 dex (3 per cent) for each band. Visual classification of morphologies was used to select a sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies that form 6dFGSv. This catalogue has been used to study the effects of stellar populations on galaxy scaling relations, to investigate the variation of the FP with environment and galaxy morphology, to explore trends in stellar populations through, along and across the FP, and to map and analyse the local peculiar velocity field.

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© 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. Accepted 2014 June 16. Received 2014 June 15; in original form 2013 October 8. First published online July 22, 2014. We acknowledge the efforts of the staff of the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO), who developed the 6dF instrument and carried out the observations for the survey. This publication makes use of data products from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. This research has also made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. JRL acknowledges support from STFC via ST/I001573/1. DHJ acknowledges support from Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Grant DP-0208876, administered by the Australian National University. CM and JM acknowledge support from ARC Discovery Projects Grant DP-1092666. CM was also supported by a scholarship from the Australian Astronomical Observatory. We thank the anonymous referee for providing us with constructive and insightful comments which helped improve this manuscript.

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