THE STRIPE 82 MASSIVE GALAXY PROJECT. I. CATALOG CONSTRUCTION
THE STRIPE 82 MASSIVE GALAXY PROJECT. I. CATALOG CONSTRUCTION
The Stripe 82 Massive Galaxy Catalog (s82-mgc) is the largest-volume stellar mass-limited sample of galaxies beyond z ≈ 0.1 constructed to date. Spanning 139.4 deg2, the s82-mgc includes a mass-limited sample of 41,770 galaxies with to z ≈ 0.7, sampling a volume of 0.3 Gpc3, roughly equivalent to the volume …