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The EFAR Project: Monte Carlo Testing of the Fundamental Plane Distance Estimator

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Galaxy Scaling Relations: Origins, Evolution and Applications

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The EFAR project is a long-term study of 736 candidate early-type galaxies in 84 clusters lying in two directions towards Hercules-Corona Borealis and PerseusPisces-Cetus at distances 6000–15000 km/s. In the following we discuss the goals of the project and the properties of the photometric and spectroscopic database. We present a new method, based on maximum likelihood, to determine the parameters of the Fundamental Plane and describe the distribution of galaxies in it. The algorithm takes into account the effects of errors and selection and is superior to least-squares procedures.

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  1. Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Scheinerstraße 1, D-81679, Munich, Germany

    R. P. Saglia

  2. Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, The Australian National University, Weston Creek, ACT, 2611, Australia

    Matthew Colless

  3. Dept of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK

    G. Baggley & Roger L. Davies

  4. Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1504, USA

    Edmund Bertschinger

  5. Dept of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    David Burstein

  6. Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, CB#3255 Phillips Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3255, USA

    Robert K. McMahan Jr.

  7. Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Wilder Lab., Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA

    Gary Wegner

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Saglia, R.P. et al. (1997). The EFAR Project: Monte Carlo Testing of the Fundamental Plane Distance Estimator. In: da Costa, L.N., Renzini, A. (eds) Galaxy Scaling Relations: Origins, Evolution and Applications. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69654-4_33

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