A Wide Field CCD Survey for Low Surface Brightness Galaxies.II.Color Distributions, Stellar Populations, and Missing Baryons

1997 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 2448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen O'Neil ◽  
G. D. Bothun ◽  
J. Schombert ◽  
Mark E. Cornell ◽  
C. D. Impey
Keyword(s):  
Surface Brightness ◽  
Stellar Populations ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Low Surface Brightness

scholarly journals Probing Galactic Outskirts with Dragonfly

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (S321) ◽  
pp. 137-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Abraham ◽  
Allison Merritt ◽  
Jielai Zhang ◽  
Pieter van Dokkum ◽  
Charlie Conroy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Brightness ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
Neutral Gas ◽  
Early Results ◽  
Low Surface Brightness ◽  
Stellar Halo ◽  
Nearby Galaxies ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Rich

AbstractWe describe the challenges inherent to low surface brightness imaging and present some early results from the Dragonfly Nearby Galaxies survey. Wide field, ultra-low surface brightness imaging (μg > 31 mag arcsec−2) of the first eight galaxies in the survey reveals a rich variety in the distribution of stars in the outskirts of luminous nearby galaxies. The mean stellar halo mass fraction is 0.009 ± 0.005 with a peak-to-peak scatter of a factor of > 100. Some galaxies in the sample feature strongly structured halos resembling that of M31, but three of the eight galaxies have halos that are completely undetected in our data. We conclude that spiral galaxies as a class exhibit a rich variety in stellar halo properties, implying that their assembly histories have been highly non-uniform. While the outskirts of some galaxies are dominated by halos with the rich substructures predicted by numerical simulations, in other cases the outermost parts of galaxies are simply the extrapolated smooth starlight from enormous stellar disks that closely trace neutral gas morphology out to around 20 scale lengths.

scholarly journals Systematic search for tidal features around nearby galaxies

2018 ◽  
Vol 614 ◽  
pp. A143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Morales ◽  
David Martínez-Delgado ◽  
Eva K. Grebel ◽  
Andrew P. Cooper ◽  
Behnam Javanmardi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Surface Brightness ◽  
Stellar Structure ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Low Surface Brightness ◽  
Nearby Galaxies ◽  
Tidal Streams ◽  
Galaxy Population

Context. In hierarchical models of galaxy formation, stellar tidal streams are expected around most, if not all, galaxies. Although these features may provide useful diagnostics of the Λ CDM model, their observational properties remain poorly constrained because they are challenging to detect and interpret and have been studied in detail for only a sparse sampling of galaxy population. More quantitative, systematic approaches are required. We advocate statistical analysis of the counts and properties of such features in archival wide-field imaging surveys for a direct comparison against results from numerical simulations. Aims. We aim to study systematically the frequency of occurrence and other observational properties of tidal features around nearby galaxies. The sample we construct will act as a foundational dataset for statistical comparison with cosmological models of galaxy formation. Methods. Our approach is based on a visual classification of diffuse features around a volume-limited sample of nearby galaxies, using a post-processing of Sloan Digital Syk Survey (SDSS) imaging optimized for the detection of stellar structure with low surface brightness. Results. At a limiting surface brightness of 28 mag arcsec−2, 14% of the galaxies in our sample exhibit evidence of diffuse features likely to have arisen from minor merging events. Our technique recovers all previously known streams in our sample and yields a number of new candidates. Consistent with previous studies, coherent arc-like features and shells are the most common type of tidal structures found in this study. We conclude that although some detections are ambiguous and could be corroborated or refuted with deeper imaging, our technique provides a reliable foundation for the statistical analysis of diffuse circumgalactic features in wide-area imaging surveys, and for the identification of targets for follow-up studies.

scholarly journals Wide-Field Imaging of Halley’s Comet During 1985-1986 Using Schmidt-Type Telescopes

1984 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 233-235
Author(s):  
J.C. Brandt ◽  
D.A. Klinglesmith ◽  
M.B. Niedner ◽  
J. Rahe
Keyword(s):  
Time Resolution ◽  
Surface Brightness ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Low Surface Brightness ◽  
The World ◽  
Halley's Comet ◽  
Worldwide Network ◽  
Field Imaging ◽  
Wide Field Imaging

AbstractPhotographic imaging of the plasma- and dust-tails of bright comets requires fast (f<4.0), wide-field (F0V>5°) optics for the proper recording of these large, low surface brightness features. Schmidts and astrographs are well-suited to this task and a large number of these instruments around the world will be turned toward Halley's Comet in 1985-1986 in support of the Large-Scale Phenomena Discipline of the International Halley Watch (IHW). This “worldwide network” should provide imagery with a time resolution never before realized in the study of a comet, and major breakthroughs in the understanding of highly-variable, elusive plasma processes in comets are expected. The imagery will also provide support for the GIOTTO, VEGA, AND PLANET-A deep space probes to the comet.

scholarly journals Stellar Populations of Dwarf Galaxies

1995 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 430-431
Author(s):  
Elchanan Almoznino ◽  
Noah Brosch
Keyword(s):  
Surface Brightness ◽  
Dwarf Galaxies ◽  
High Surface ◽  
Stellar Populations ◽  
Virgo Cluster ◽  
Original Sample ◽  
High Surface Brightness ◽  
Brightness Level ◽  
Low Surface Brightness ◽  
Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

We selected a sample of dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster from the original catalog of Bingelli, Sandage and Tamman (1985), which have been measured at 21 cm by Hoffman et al. (1987). The original sample was selected to have both high surface brightness objects (classified as BCD or anything/BCD), and low surface brightness galaxies (classified as ImIII, ImIV or ImV). An additional selection was done on the total amount of HI, as given in Hoffman et al. We selected from each surface brightness group objects with high HI content (flux integral larger than a set threshold), and others with low HI content. We thus defined four samples differing in surface brightness level and total HI content.

scholarly journals Environment, morphology, and stellar populations of bulgeless low surface-brightness galaxies

2015 ◽  
Vol 579 ◽  
pp. A57 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Shao ◽  
K. Disseau ◽  
Y. B. Yang ◽  
F. Hammer ◽  
M. Puech ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Brightness ◽  
Stellar Populations ◽  
Low Surface Brightness ◽  
Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

scholarly journals The quiescent fraction of isolated low surface brightness galaxies: observational constraints

2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (2) ◽  
pp. 2049-2062
Author(s):  
D J Prole ◽  
R F J van der Burg ◽  
M Hilker ◽  
L R Spitler
Keyword(s):  
Surface Brightness ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Imaging Data ◽  
Distance Information ◽  
Spatially Correlated ◽  
Low Surface Brightness ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Strategic Program ◽  
Low Surface Brightness Galaxies ◽  
Lsb Galaxies

ABSTRACT Understanding the formation and evolution of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) is critical for explaining their wide-ranging properties. However, studies of LSBGs in deep photometric surveys are often hindered by a lack of distance estimates. In this work, we present a new catalogue of 479 LSBGs, identified in deep optical imaging data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP). These galaxies are found across a range of environments, from the field to groups. Many are likely to be ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs). We see clear evidence for a bimodal population in colour–Sérsic index space, and split our sample into red and blue LSBG populations. We estimate environmental densities for a sub-sample of 215 sources by statistically associating them with nearby spectroscopic galaxies from the overlapping GAMA spectroscopic survey. We find that the blue LSBGs are statistically consistent with being spatially randomized with respect to local spectroscopic galaxies, implying they exist predominantly in low-density environments. However, the red LSBG population is significantly spatially correlated with local structure. We find that $26\pm 5{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of isolated, local LSBGs belong to the red population, which we interpret as quiescent. This indicates that high environmental density plays a dominant, but not exclusive, role in producing quiescent LSBGs. Our analysis method may prove to be very useful, given the large samples of LSB galaxies without distance information expected from e.g. the Vera C. Rubin observatory (aka LSST), especially in combination with upcoming comprehensive wide-field spectroscopic surveys.

scholarly journals A large sample of low surface brightness disk galaxies from SDSS

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (S252) ◽  
pp. 131-132
Author(s):  
G. H. Zhong ◽  
Y. C. Liang ◽  
L. C. Deng ◽  
B. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Surface Brightness ◽  
Stellar Populations ◽  
Disk Galaxies ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Central Surface ◽  
Main Galaxy ◽  
Low Surface Brightness ◽  
Galaxy Sample

AbstractWe present the properties of a large sample (12,282) of nearly face-on low surface brightness disk galaxies selected from the main galaxy sample of SDSS-DR4. Those properties includes B-band central surface brightness μ0(B), scale lengths h, distances D, integrated magnitudes, colors and some resulted relations. This sample has μ0(B) from 22 to 24.5 mag arcsec−2 with a median value of 22.44 mag arcsec−2. They are quite bright with MB taking values from −18 to −23 mag with a median value of −20.08 mag. The disk scale lengths h are from 2 kpc to 19 kpc. There exist clear correlations between log h and MB, log h and log D. Both the optical-optical and optical-NIR color-color relations show most of them have a mix of young and old stellar populations.

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