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Robust automatic photometry of local galaxies from SDSS. Dissecting the color magnitude relation with color profiles

Consolandi, Guido; Gavazzi, Giuseppe; Fumagalli, Michele; Dotti, Massimo; Fossati, Matteo

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Authors

Guido Consolandi

Giuseppe Gavazzi

Massimo Dotti

Matteo Fossati



Abstract

We present an automatic procedure to perform reliable photometry of galaxies on SDSS images. We selected a sample of 5853 galaxies in the Coma and Virgo superclusters. For each galaxy, we derive Petrosian g and i magnitudes, surface brightness and color profiles. Unlike the SDSS pipeline, our procedure is not affected by the well known shredding problem and efficiently extracts Petrosian magnitudes for all galaxies. Hence we derived magnitudes even from the population of galaxies missed by the SDSS which represents ~25% of all local supercluster galaxies and ~95% of galaxies with g < 11 mag. After correcting the g and i magnitudes for Galactic and internal extinction, the blue and red sequences in the color magnitude diagram are well separated, with similar slopes. In addition, we study (i) the color-magnitude diagrams in different galaxy regions, the inner (r ≤ 1 kpc), intermediate (0.2RPet ≤ r ≤ 0.3RPet) and outer, disk-dominated (r ≥ 0.35RPet)) zone; and (ii), we compute template color profiles, discussing the dependences of the templates on the galaxy masses and on their morphological type. The two analyses consistently lead to a picture where elliptical galaxies show no color gradients, irrespective of their masses. Spirals, instead, display a steeper gradient in their color profiles with increasing mass, which is consistent with the growing relevance of a bulge and/or a bar component above 1010 M⊙.

Citation

Consolandi, G., Gavazzi, G., Fumagalli, M., Dotti, M., & Fossati, M. (2016). Robust automatic photometry of local galaxies from SDSS. Dissecting the color magnitude relation with color profiles. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 591, Article A38. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527618

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 23, 2016
Online Publication Date Jun 8, 2016
Publication Date Jul 1, 2016
Deposit Date Jul 7, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Astronomy and astrophysics.
Print ISSN 0004-6361
Electronic ISSN 1432-0746
Publisher EDP Sciences
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 591
Article Number A38
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527618

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Reproduced with permission from Astronomy & Astrophysics, © ESO, 2016





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