Citation:
Cool RJ, Eisenstein DJ, Johnston D, Scranton R, Brinkmann J, Schneider DP, Zehavi I. Broadband Optical Properties of Massive Galaxies: The Dispersion around the Field Galaxy Color-Magnitude Relation Out to z~0.4. The Astronomical Journal. 2006;131 :736-746.
Date Published:
February 1, 2006Abstract:
Using a sample of nearly 20,000 massive early-type galaxies selectedfrom the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we study the color-magnitude relationfor the most luminous (L>~2.2L*) field galaxies in theredshift range 0.1