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Context. In spite of the numerous studies of low-luminosity galaxies in different environments, there is still no consensus about their formation scenario. In particular, a large number of galaxies displaying extremely low-surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-30 A. V. Smith Castelli , F. R. Faifer , C. G. Escudero

We construct $z\sim6-7$, 8, and 9 faint Lyman break galaxy samples (334, 61, and 37 galaxies, respectively) with accurate size measurements with the software $\texttt{glafic}$ from the complete Hubble Frontier Fields (FF) cluster and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Ryota Kawamata , Masafumi Ishigaki , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Masamune Oguri , Masami Ouchi , Shingo Tanigawa

We use star counts from 13 deep HST fields imaged with the {\it Wide Field Camera - 2} in order to constrain the amount of dark matter in the Galaxy that can be in the form of low-mass main sequence stars or white-dwarfs. Based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Basilio X. Santiago , Gerard Gilmore , Rebecca A. W. Elson

Low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures serve as evidence of the intricate mass assembly of galaxies, and dedicatedly studying them promises to give us profound insights into the evolutionary history of galaxies. Furthermore, delving into…

This paper considers some simple surface brightness (SB) estimates for galaxies in the Automated Plate Measuring Machine (APM) catalogue in order to derive homogeneous SB data for a very large sample of faint galaxies. The isophotal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Shao , S. J. Maddox , J. B. Jones , P. Coles

In this paper, we discuss a method to conduct a quantitative study of the star formation history (SFH) of Local Group (LG) galaxies using (HST) data. This method has proven to be successful in the analysis of the SFH of the same kind of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Aparicio , C. Gallart , C. Chiosi , G. Bertelli

We have obtained integrated spectra and multi-filter photometry for a repre- sentative sample of ~200 nearby galaxies. These galaxies span the entire Hubble sequence in morphological type, as well as a wide range of luminosities (M_B = -14…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. A. Jansen , M. Franx , D. Fabricant , N. Caldwell

We used HST to obtain surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) observations of four nearby brightest cluster galaxies (BCG) to calibrate the BCG Hubble diagram of Lauer & Postman (1992). This BCG Hubble diagram contains 114 galaxies covering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tod R. Lauer , John L. Tonry , Marc Postman , Edward A. Ajhar , Jon A. Holtzman

We perform a spectrophotometric analysis of galaxies at redshifts z = 4 - 6 in cosmological SPH simulations of a Lambda CDM universe. Our models include radiative cooling and heating by a uniform UV background, star formation, supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christopher Night , Kentaro Nagamine , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Superthin galaxies (STs) are edge-on disc galaxies with strikingly high planar-to-vertical axes ratios of $\sim 10 - 20$ with no bulge component, and central surface brightness in $B$-band $>$ 23 mag arcsec$^{-2}$ comparable to low surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Ganesh Narayanan , Arunima Banerjee

Both theoretical and observational lines of reasoning suggest that the very faint (B > 24) galaxies seen in deep images of the sky are small low-mass galaxies that experienced starburst at 0.5<z<1 and have since faded into low luminosity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-19 Arif Babul , Henry C. Ferguson

The ``Synthetic Field Method'' (SFM) was introduced by Gonzalez et al. (1998) to calibrate numbers of distant galaxies as a probe of extinction in a foreground spiral disk. Gonzalez et al. (2003) studied the effect of the foreground disk on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. W. Holwerda , R. A. Gonzalez , Ronald J. Allen , P. C. van der Kruit

We measure the z=0 B-band optical luminosity function (LF) for galaxies selected in a blind HI survey. The total LF of the HI selected sample is flat, with Schechter parameters M*=-19.38_{-0.62}^{+1.02} + 5 log h mag and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. A. Zwaan , F. H. Briggs , D. Sprayberry

Low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) which are defined as galaxies that are fainter than the night sky, play a crucial role in understanding galaxy evolution and cosmological models. Upcoming large-scale surveys like Rubin Observatory…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-29 H. Thuruthipilly , Junais , A. Pollo , U. Sureshkumar , M. Grespan , P. Sawant , K. Malek , A. Zadrozny

We present a new calibration of the peak absolute magnitude of SNe Type Ia based on the Surface Brightness Fluctuations (SBF) method, aimed at measuring the value of the Hubble constant. We build a sample of calibrating anchors consisting…

We present analysis of local large scale flows using the Surface Brightness Fluctuation (SBF) Survey for the distances to 300 early-type galaxies. Our models of the distribution function of mean velocity and velocity dispersion at each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 John L. Tonry , John P. Blakeslee , Edward A. Ajhar , Alan Dressler

In the last decade the detection of individual massive dark matter sub-halos has been possible using potential correction formalism in strong gravitational lens imaging. Here we propose a statistical formalism to relate strong gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-17 Saikat Chatterjee , Léon V. E. Koopmans

We compare infrared surface brightness fluctuation (IR SBF) distances measured in galaxies that have hosted type Ia supernovae (SNIa) to distances estimated from SNIa light curve fits. We show that the properties of SNIa found in IR SBF…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Peter Garnavich , Charlotte M. Wood , Peter Milne , Joseph B. Jensen , John P. Blakeslee , Peter J. Brown , Daniel Scolnic , Benjamin Rose , Dillon Brout

We present a catalogue of an HI-selected sample of 1129 low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) searched from the alpha.40-SDSS DR7 survey. This sample, consisting of various types of galaxies in terms of luminosity and morphology, has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-21 Wei Du , Cheng Cheng , Hong Wu , Ming Zhu , Yougang Wang

Classical low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies pose an important challenge to galaxy evolution models. While they are found to host large reservoirs of atomic hydrogen, they display low stellar and star-formation surface densities. Global…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-25 Hannah S. Christie , Pauline Barmby , Jason E. Young