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In this work, we extend the catalog of low-surface brightness (LSB) galaxies, including Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy (UDG) candidates, within $\approx 0.4R_{vir}$ of the Hydra I cluster of galaxies, based on deep images from the VST Early-type…

We probe the formation scenarios and the active galactic nuclei (AGN) occupation fraction of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the nearby Coma cluster by utilizing XMM-Newton observations of 779 out of 854 UDG candidates identified by Subaru…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 M. S. Mirakhor , S. A. Walker

It is clear that within the class of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) there is an extreme range in the richness of their associated globular cluster (GC) systems. Here, we report the structural properties of five UDGs in the Perseus cluster…

Tidal interactions between massive galaxies and their satellites are fundamental processes in a Universe with L-Cold Dark Matter cosmology, redistributing material into faint features that preserve records of past galactic interactions.…

We present a detection of 89 candidates of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in a 4.9 degree$^2$ field centered on the Hickson Compact Group 95 (HCG 95) using deep $g$- and $r$-band images taken with the Chinese Near Object Survey Telescope.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-31 Dongdong Shi , Xianzhong Zheng , Haibin Zhao , Zhizheng Pan , Bin Li , Hu Zou , Xu Zhou , Kexin Guo , Fangxia An , Yubin Li

We investigate the spatial density configuration of stars around four metal-poor globular clusters (NGC 6266, NGC 6626, NGC 6642 and NGC 6723) in the Galactic bulge region using wide-field deep J, H, and K imaging data obtained with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Sang-Hyun Chun , Minhee Kang , DooSeok Jung , Young-Jong Sohn

We present a pilot study of the atomic neutral hydrogen gas (HI) content of ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates. In this paper, we use the pre-pilot Eridanus field data from the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey (WALLABY)…

Ultra-diffuse galaxies, characterized by comparable effective radii to the Milky Way but possessing 100-1,000 times fewer stars, offer a unique opportunity to garner novel insights into the mechanisms governing galaxy formation.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-02 Yu Rong , Huijie Hu , Min He , Wei Du , Qi Guo , Hui-Yuan Wang , Hong-Xin Zhang , Houjun Mo

A full understanding of how unusually large "Ultra Diffuse Galaxies" (UDGs) fit into our conventional understanding of dwarf galaxies remains elusive, despite the large number of objects identified locally. A natural extension of UDG…

We study a gas rich merging dwarf system KUG 0200-096. Deep optical image reveals an optically faint tail with a length of 20 kpc, giving a visual impression of tidal antenna similar to NGC 4038/39. The interacting dwarf galaxies have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Sanjaya Paudel , Chandreyee Sengupta , Suk Jin Yoon

It remains challenging to systematically survey nearby diffuse dwarf galaxies and address the formation mechanism of this population distinguishing from regular ones. We carry out a pilot search for these galaxies in the COSMOS field using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-13 Dongdong Shi , XianZhong Zheng , Zhizheng Pan , Yu Luo , Hongxia Deng , Qunzhi Hua , Xinyu Luo , Qiming Wu

We report the discovery of 854 ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Coma cluster using deep R band images, with partial B, i, and Halpha band coverage, obtained with the Subaru telescope. Many of them (332) are Milky Way-sized with very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-08 Jin Koda , Masafumi Yagi , Hitomi Yamanoi , Yutaka Komiyama

Two competing theories posit that Ultra Compact Dwarfs (UCDs) form either as the stripped nuclei of dwarf galaxies or as giant globular clusters (GGCs) associated with the largest globular cluster (GC) systems. By focussing on the field and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Mark A. Norris , Sheila J. Kannappan

Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs), a type of large Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies with particularly large effective radii (r_eff > 1.5 kpc), are now routinely studied in the local (z<0.1) universe. While they are found to be abundant in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Aisha Bachmann , Remco F. J. van der Burg , Jérémy Fensch , Gabriel Brammer , Adam Muzzin

The ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) NGC1052-DF2 has a low dark matter content and hosts a very unusual globular cluster (GC) population, with a median luminosity $\sim4$ times higher than in most galaxies and containing about 5~per~cent of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-04 Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Benjamin W. Keller , Marta Reina-Campos

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) exhibit morphological similarities with other low-luminosity galaxies indicating a possible evolutionary connection. We investigate for common dynamical characteristics of isolated, HI-rich UDGs with other low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-22 Nilanjana Nandi , Arunima Banerjee , Ganesh Narayanan

Observations of nearby galaxy clusters at low surface brightness have identified galaxies with low luminosities, but sizes as large as L* galaxies, leading them to be dubbed "ultra-diffuse galaxies" (UDGs). The survival of UDGs in dense…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 Eric W. Peng , Sungsoon Lim

Low-surface-brightness galaxies (LSBs) contribute to a significant fraction of all the galaxies in the Universe. Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) form a subclass of LSBs that has attracted a lot of attention in recent years (although its…

We report the discovery of a large population of Ultra-diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) in the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (z=0.308) as observed by the Hubble Frontier Fields program. Since this cluster is ~5 times more massive than Coma, our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 Steven Janssens , Roberto Abraham , Jean Brodie , Duncan Forbes , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Pieter van Dokkum

We present multi-wavelength imaging and analysis of a low surface brightness (LSB) dwarf galaxy in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS), SMDG0333094-280938, with particular emphasis on data from the Euclid space telescope and from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 Aaron J. Romanowsky , Yimeng Tang , Kevin A. Bundy
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