A search for the most massive galaxies: Double trouble?

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2018-2034

  Bernardi, M ^a   Shfth, R K ^a   Nichol, R C ^b   Miller, C J ^c   Schlegel, D ^d   Frieman, J ^e,f   Schneider, D P ^g   Subbarao, M ^e   York, D G ^e   Brinkmann, J ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

cD; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: fundamental parameters galaxies: photometry; Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744501506     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499770     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Abazajian, K., et al. 2003, AJ. 126, 2081
2. Bernardi, M., et al. 2003a, AJ. 125, 1817
3. _. 2003b, AJ, 125, 1849
4. _. 2003c, AJ, 125, 1866
5. _. 2003d, AJ, 125, 1882
6. _. 2005, AJ, 129, 61
7. Blanton, M. R., Lupton, R. H., Malcy, F. M., Young, N., Zehavi. I., & Loveday, J. 2003, AJ, 125, 2276
8. Bruzual, G., & Charlot, S. 2003, MNRAS, 344, 1000
9. Budavari, T., et al. 2003. ApJ, 595, 59
10. Cohn, J. D., & Kochanek, C. S. 2004, ApJ, 608, 25
11. Dressler, A. 1979. ApJ, 231, 659
12. Eisenstein, D. J., et al. 2001, AJ. 122, 2267
13. Ferrarese, L., & Merritt, D. 2000, ApJ, 539, L9
14. Franx, M., Illingworth, G. D., & Heckman. T. 1989. ApJ, 344, 613
15. Fukugita, M., Ichikawa, T., Gunn. J. E., Doi, M., Shimasaku. K., & Schneider, D. P. 1996, AJ, 111, 1748
16. Gebhardt, K., et al. 2000, ApJ, 539, L13
17. Gunn, J. E., et al. 1998. AJ, 116, 3040
18. Hogg, D. W., Schlegel, D. J., Finkbeiner. D. P., & Gunn, J. E. 2001, AJ, 122, 2129
19. Jones, L. R., Ponman, T. J., Horton, A., Babul, A., Ebeling, H., & Burke, D. J. 2003, MNRAS, 343, 627
20. Jergensen, I., Franx, M., & Kjaergaard, P. 1995, MNRAS. 276, 1341
21. Kravtsov, A. V., Berlind, A. A., Wechsler, R. H., Klypin, A. A., Gottloeber, S., Allgood, B., & Primack, J. R. 2004, ApJ, 609, 35
22. Lauer, T. R., et al. 2002, AJ, 124, 1975
23. Lupton, R., Gunn, J. E., Ivezić, Z., Knapp, G. R., Kent, S., & Yasuda, N. 2001, in ASP Conf. Ser. 238, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems X, ed. F. R. Harnden, Jr., F. A. Primini, & H. E. Payne (San Francisco: ASP), 269
24. Mitchell, J. L., Keeton, C. R., Frieman, J. A., & Sheth, R. K. 2005, ApJ, 622, 81
25. Navarro, J. F., Frenk, C. S., & White, S. D. M. 1997, ApJ, 490, 493
26. Pier, J. R., Munn, J. A., Hindsley, R. B., Hennessy, G. S., Kent, S. M., Lupton. R. H., & Ivezic, Z. 2003, AJ, 125, 1559
27. Porter, A. C., Schneider, D. P., & Hoessel, J. G. 1991, AJ, 101, 1561
28. Rix, H.-W., & White, S. D. M. 1992, MNRAS, 254, 389
29. Rusin, D., & Tegmark, M. 2001, ApJ, 553, 709
30. Sargent, W. L. W., Schechter, P. L., Boksenberg, A., & Shortridge, K. 1977, ApJ, 212, 326
31. Scoccimarro, R., & Sheth, R. K. 2002, MNRAS, 329, 629
32. Sheth, R. K., et al. 2003, ApJ, 594, 225
33. Simkin, S. M. 1974, A&A, 31, 129
34. Smith, J. A., et al. 2002, AJ, 123, 2121
35. Somerville, R. S., et al. 2004, ApJ, 600, L135
36. Stoughton, C., et al. 2002, AJ, 123, 485
37. Strauss, M. A., et al. 2002, AJ, 124, 1810
38. Tonry, J., & Davis, M. 1979, AJ, 84, 1511
39. Tremaine, S., et al. 2002, ApJ, 574, 740
40. Vikhlinin, A., McNamara, B. R., Hornstrup, A., Quintana, H., Forman, W., Jones, C., & Way, M. 1999, ApJ, 520, L1
41. Worthey, G., & Ottaviani, D. L. 1997, ApJS, 111, 377
42. York, D. G., et al. 2000, AJ, 120, 1579
43. Yoshida, N., Sheth, R. K., & Diaferio, A. 2001. MNRAS, 328, 669
44. Zehavi, I., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, 22