The Tolman Surface Brightness Test for the Reality of the Expansion. III. [ITAL]HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE[/ITAL][ITAL]Hubble Space Telescope[/ITAL] Profile and Surface Brightness Data for Early-Type Galaxies in Three High-Redshift Clusters

Abstract

Photometric data for 34 early-type galaxies in the three high-redshift clusters Cl 1324+3011 (z = 0.76), Cl 1604+4304 (z = 0.90), and Cl 1604+4321 (z = 0.92), observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and with the Keck 10 m telescopes by Oke, Postman, & Lubin, are analyzed to obtain the photometric parameters of mean surface brightness, magnitudes for the growth curves, and angular radii at various Petrosian η radii. The angular radii at η = 1.3 mag for the program galaxies are all larger than 024. All the galaxies are well resolved at this angular size using HST, whose point-spread function is 005, half-width at half-maximum. The data for each of the program galaxies are listed at η = 1.0, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, and 2.0 mag. They are corrected by color equations and K-terms for the effects of redshift to the rest-frame Cape/Cousins I for Cl 1324+3011 and Cl 1604+4304 and R for Cl 1604+4321. The K-corrections are calculated from synthetic spectral energy distributions derived from evolving stellar population models of Bruzual & Charlot, that have been fitted to the observed broadband (BVRI) AB magnitudes of each program galaxy. The listed photometric data are independent of all cosmological parameters. They are the source data for the Tolman surface brightness test made in Paper IV.