We report the 6dFGS Fundamental Plane ( 6dFGSv ) catalogue that is used to estimate distances and peculiar velocities for nearly 9 000 early-type galaxies in the local ( z < 0.055 ) universe .
Velocity dispersions are derived by cross-correlation from 6dF V-band spectra with typical S/N of 12.9 Å ^ { -1 } for a sample of 11 315 galaxies ; the median velocity dispersion is 163 km s ^ { -1 } and the median measurement error is 12.9 % .
The photometric Fundamental Plane ( FP ) parameters ( effective radii and surface brightnesses ) are determined from the JHK 2MASS images for 11 102 galaxies .
Comparison of the independent J - and K -band measurements implies that the average uncertainty in X _ { FP } , the combined photometric parameter that enters the FP , is 0.013 dex ( 3 % ) for each band .
Visual classification of morphologies was used to select a sample of nearly 9 000 early-type galaxies that form 6dFGSv .
This catalogue has been used to study the effects of stellar populations on galaxy scaling relations , to investigate the variation of the FP with environment and galaxy morphology , to explore trends in stellar populations through , along and across the FP , and to map and analyse the local peculiar velocity field .