A deep field survey for low surface brightness galaxies

Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

The Fornax Spectroscopic Survey — Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in Fornax

The Fornax Spectroscopic Survey is a large optical spectroscopic survey of all 14 000 objects with 16.5 < BJ < 19.7 in a 12 deg 2 area of sky centered on the Fornax Cluster. We are using the 400-fibre Two Degree Field spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope: the multiplex advantage of this system allows us to observe objects conventionally classified as “stars” as well as “galaxies”. Thi...

DWARF AND LOW SURFACE BRIGHTNESS GALAXIES Field Populations

The terms `dwarf' and `low surface brightness' are commonly used to mean a variety of di erent things, and are sometimes used interchangeably. It is thus necessary to explicitly quantify the de nitions which are adopted. Here I shall limit the discussion to eld galaxies which are [exponential] disks characterized by a scale size h and central surface brightness 0. The word dwarf implies things ...

A Survey for Low Surface Brightness Dwarf

By applying a digital ltering technique to 1550 deg 2 of the POSS-II in the vicinity of M31, we found two previously unidentiied very low surface brightness dwarf galaxies which we designate And V and VI. Follow-up imaging with the KPNO 4-m telescope resolved these into stars easily. The V-and I-band images of And V indicate a distance similar to that of M31, and {1.5. All evidence stro...

A deep wide survey of faint low surface brightness galaxies in the direction of the Coma cluster of galaxies

Aims. We report on a search for faint (R total magnitude fainter than 21) and low surface brightness galaxies (R central surface brightness fainter than ∼24) (fLSBs) in a 0.72×0.82 deg2 area centered on the Coma cluster. Methods. We analyzed deep B and R band CCD imaging obtained using the CFH12K camera at CFHT and found 735 fLSBs. The total B magnitudes, at the Coma cluster redshift, range fro...