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Low Surface Brightness Galaxies selected by different model fitting

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2023-12-14 v1

Abstract

We present a study of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) selected by fitting the images for all the galaxies in α\alpha.40 SDSS DR7 sample with two kinds of single-component models and two kinds of two-component models (disk+bulge): single exponential, single s\'{e}rsic, exponential+deVaucular (exp+deV), and exponential+s\'{e}rsic (exp+ser). Under the criteria of the B band disk central surface brightness μ0,disk(B)22.5 mag arcsec2\mu_{\rm 0,disk}{\rm (B) \geqslant 22.5\ mag\ arcsec^{-2}} and the axis ratio b/a>0.3\rm b/a > 0.3, we selected four none-edge-on LSBG samples from each of the models which contain 1105, 1038, 207, and 75 galaxies, respectively. There are 756 galaxies in common between LSBGs selected by exponential and s\'{e}rsic models, corresponding to 68.42% of LSBGs selected by the exponential model and 72.83% of LSBGs selected by the s\'{e}rsic model, the rest of the discrepancy is due to the difference in obtaining μ0\mu_{0} between the exponential and s\'{e}rsic models. Based on the fitting, in the range of 0.5n1.50.5 \leqslant n \leqslant 1.5, the relation of μ0\mu_{0} from two models can be written as μ0,seˊrsicμ0,exp=1.34(n1)\mu_{\rm 0,s\acute{e}rsic} - \mu_{\rm 0,exp} = -1.34(n-1). The LSBGs selected by disk+bulge models (LSBG_2comps) are more massive than LSBGs selected by single-component models (LSBG_1comp), and also show a larger disk component. Though the bulges in the majority of our LSBG_2comps are not prominent, more than 60% of our LSBG_2comps will not be selected if we adopt a single-component model only. We also identified 31 giant low surface brightness galaxies (gLSBGs) from LSBG_2comps. They are located at the same region in the color-magnitude diagram as other gLSBGs. After we compared different criteria of gLSBGs selection, we find that for gas-rich LSBGs, M>1010MM_{\star} > 10^{10}M_{\odot} is the best to distinguish between gLSBGs and normal LSBGs with bulge.

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@article{arxiv.2312.08179,
  title  = {Low Surface Brightness Galaxies selected by different model fitting},
  author = {Bing-qing Zhang and Hong Wu and Wei Du and Pin-song Zhao and Min He and Feng-jie Lei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.08179},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

21 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables, accepted by Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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