VizieR Online Data Catalog: MASSIVE Survey. VII. (Veale+, 2017)

The MASSIVE survey consists of a volume-limited sample of ETGs, targeting all 116 galaxies1 with K-band magnitudes MK brighter than -25.3mag (i.e. stellar masses M*>~10^11.5M_ȯ) and distances within D<108Mpc, in the Northern hemisphere and away from the Galactic plane (Ma et al., 2014, Cat. J/ApJ/795/158).

We have completed observations of the 'priority sample' of the MASSIVE survey, which consists of the 75 galaxies with MK<-25.5mag (M*>~10^11.7M_ȯ). The observations were performed using the Mitchell/VIRUS-P IFS at the McDonald Observatory, which has a large 107x107arcsec² field of view and consists of 246 evenly spaced 4-arcsec-diameter fibres with a one-third filling factor.

We use four different measures to quantify galaxy environments and to investigate the connection between galaxy environments and stellar kinematics for the galaxies in the MASSIVE and ATLAS3D surveys: (1) group membership from the group catalogues of Crook et al. (2007, Cat. J/ApJ/655/790) constructed from the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS; Huchra et al., 2012, Cat. J/ApJS/199/26); (2) halo mass from the same group catalogues, available for galaxies in a group with three or more members; (3) a smoothed large-scale density field from Carrick et al. (2015MNRAS.450..317C) based on the 2M++ redshift catalogue of Lavaux & Hudson (2011, Cat. J/MNRAS/416/2840) and (4) a local galaxy luminosity density calculated within the volume to the 10th neighbour, similar to ν₁₀ in Cappellari et al. (2011, Cat. J/MNRAS/416/1680).

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