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April 1, 2003Abstract:
A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range0.01<=z<=0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey(SDSS) using morphological and spectral criteria. This paper describeshow the sample was selected, presents examples of images andseeing-corrected fits to the observed surface brightness profiles,describes our method for estimating K-corrections, and shows that theSDSS spectra are of sufficiently high quality to measure velocitydispersions accurately. It also provides catalogs of the measuredphotometric and spectroscopic parameters. In related papers, these dataare used to study how early-type galaxy observables, includingluminosity, effective radius, surface brightness, color, and velocitydispersion, are correlated with one another.