Tidal Streams around External Galaxies
Abstract
We have the unique opportunity to observe and model nearby streams around the two large Local Group spirals Milky Way and M31 in great detail. However, the detection of streams around other external galaxies is required to verify the general application of the derived results. We give a short summary of streams around other galaxies known in the literature, measuring for the first time the surface brightness of Malin's M83 stream with modern CCD imaging. In addition, we present four new detections of possible stellar streams around disk galaxies.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0308142,
title = {Tidal Streams around External Galaxies},
author = {M. Pohlen and D. Martinez-Delgado and S. Majewski and C. Palma and F. Prada and M. Balcells},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0308142},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in the ASP proceedings of the "Satellites and Tidal Streams" conference, La Palma, Canary Islands, 26-30 May 2003, eds, F. Prada, D. Martinez-Delgado, T. Mahoney, higher resolution version at http://www.iac.es/galeria/pohlen/Sattail03.ps.gz, v2 minor changes in text and references