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The study of dwarf galaxies and their environments provides crucial testbeds for predictions of cosmological models and insights on the structure formation on small cosmological scales. In recent years, many problems on the scale of groups…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Oliver Müller , Helmut Jerjen , Bruno Binggeli

Spectroscopy for faint dwarf galaxies outside of our own Local Group is challenging. Here, we present MUSE spectroscopy to study the properties of four known dwarf satellites and one stellar stream (KK208) surrounding the nearby grand…

Aim: To extend the investigations of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) beyond the well studied Fornax and Virgo clusters. Methods: We measured spectroscopic redshifts of about 400 compact object candidates with 19.2 < V < 22.4 mag in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Mieske , M. Hilker , A. Jordan , L. Infante , M. Kissler-Patig

We present our discovery and analysis of dwarf galaxies in the NGC 3585 galaxy group by the KMTNet Supernova Program. Using deep stack images reaching $\simeq$ 28 mag arcsec$^{-2}$ in $BVI$, we discovered 46 dwarf galaxy candidates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Hong Soo Park , Dae-Sik Moon , Dennis Zaritsky , Sang Chul Kim , Youngdae Lee , Sang-Mok Cha , Yongseok Lee

We have carried out CCD photometry in the Cousins B and R bands of 21 dwarf galaxies in and around the M101 group. Eleven are members and suspected members of the group and ten are field galaxies in the projected vicinity of the group. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Bremnes , B. Binggeli , P. Prugniel

We have carried out surface photometry of four bright known members and a number of new possible LSB companions of the IC 65 (LGG 16) group of galaxies. The purpose of the present study is twofold: (a) a search for new LSB dwarf members and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Vennik , U. Hopp

The abundance and spatial distribution of dwarf galaxies are excellent empirical benchmarks to test models of structure formation on small scales. The nearby Centaurus group, with its two subgroups centered on CenA and M83, stands out as an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Oliver Müller , Marina Rejkuba , Helmut Jerjen

We are undertaking a large, wide-field survey of nearby groups and poor clusters. The main goals are identifying and characterizing the properties of low-surface-brightness dwarf galaxies and determining the galaxy luminosity function for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Mendes de Oliveira , E. R. Carrasco , L. Infante , M. Bolte

As part of the Panoramic Imaging Survey of Centaurus and Sculptor (PISCeS) we report the discovery of a pair of faint dwarf galaxies (CenA-MM-Dw1 and CenA-MM-Dw2) at a projected distance of $\sim$90 kpc from the nearby elliptical galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Crnojević , D. J. Sand , N. Caldwell , P. Guhathakurta , B. McLeod , A. Seth , J. Simon , J. Strader , E. Toloba

We performed a search for faint low surface brightness dwarf galaxies around the major spiral galaxy M\,101 and in the large rectangular area within SGL = [30 -- 80]$^{\circ}$, SGB =[10 -- 37]$^{\circ}$ spanning a chain of galaxies: M\,63,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-04 Valentina E. Karachentseva , Igor D. Karachentsev , Elena I. Kaisina , Serafim S. Kaisin

Dwarf satellite galaxies are a key probe of dark matter and of galaxy formation on small scales and of the dark matter halo masses of their central galaxies. They have very low surface brightness, which makes it difficult to identify and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-11 Allison Merritt , Pieter van Dokkum , Roberto Abraham

We present initial results of a survey of host $L_{*}$ galaxies environments in the Local Volume ($D<10\,$Mpc) searching for satellite dwarf galaxy candidates using the wide-field Hyper Suprime-Cam imager on the 8m Subaru Telescope. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 E. Crosby , H. Jerjen , O. Müller , M. Pawlowski , M. Mateo , M. Dirnberger

We study the resolved stellar populations of dwarf galaxies in the nearby Centaurus A/M83 group of galaxies. Our goal is to characterize their evolutionary history and to investigate eventual similarities or differences with the dwarf…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Crnojević , E. K. Grebel , A. A. Cole

We report the discovery of a large population of dwarf irregular galaxies in the two nearest groups of galaxies outside the Local Group, the Sculptor and the Centaurus A groups (2.5 and 3.5 Mpc). Total areas of approximately 940 and 910…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-10 Stephanie Cote , Ken Freeman , Claude Carignan , Peter Quinn

We present the results of an all-sky, deep optical survey for faint Local Group dwarf galaxies. Candidate objects were selected from the second Palomar survey (POSS-II) and ESO/SRC survey plates and follow-up observations performed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alan B. Whiting , George K. T. Hau , Mike Irwin , Miguel Verdugo

The faint and ultrafaint dwarf galaxies in the Local Group form the observational bedrock upon which our understanding of small-scale cosmology rests. In order to understand whether this insight generalizes, it is imperative to use…

On the scale of dwarf galaxies, several tensions between observations and the theory of structure formation have been identified in the Local Group of galaxies. One of them, the plane-of-satellite problem describes the distribution and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-23 Oliver Müller

We report the discovery of a new faint dwarf galaxy, which we dub Scl-MM-Dw1, at a projected distance of $\sim$65 kpc from the spiral galaxy NGC 253. The discovery results from the Panoramic Imaging Survey of Centaurus and Sculptor…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 D. J. Sand , D. Crnojević , J. Strader , E. Toloba , J. D. Simon , N. Caldwell , P. Guhathakurta , B. McLeod , A. C. Seth

We have used public data from the Next Generation Virgo Survey (NGVS) to investigate the dwarf galaxy population of the Virgo cluster beyond what has previously been discovered. We initially mask and smooth the data, and then use the object…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 J. I. Davies , L. J. M. Davies , O. C. Keenan

We present the discovery of 48 new and the analysis of 55, including 7 previously discovered, dwarf galaxy candidates around the giant spiral galaxy NGC~2997 using deep $BVI$ images from the KMTNet Supernova Program. Their $V$-band central…