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We present V and I CCD photometry of suspected low-surface brightness dwarf galaxies detected in a survey covering ~2.4 deg^2 around the central region of the Dorado group of galaxies. The low-surface brightness galaxies were chosen based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. R. Carrasco , C. M. de Oliveira , Leopoldo Infante , Michael Bolte

We present the photometric and spectroscopic results of a survey done in a wide-field area of nearby groups and poor clusters. The main goals are identifying and characterizing the properties of low-surface-brightness dwarf galaxies and…

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

This study reports on photometric results of a search for LSB galaxies in a 0.76deg^2 field centered on the HDF-S. We present results from photometric analysis of the derived sample galaxies and compare number densities to results of former…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Haberzettl , D. J. Bomans , R. -J. Dettmar , M. Pohlen

We present results of a large area CCD survey for low surface brightness galaxies (LSBs) that reaches central surface brightnesses of mu_0=25 mag/sqr-" in V. We have analyzed 17.5 degrees of transit scan data, and identified a statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. J. Dalcanton , D. N. Spergel , J. E. Gunn , M. Schmidt , D. P. Schneider

We report the discovery of a very diverse set of five low-surface brightness (LSB) dwarf galaxy candidates in Hickson Compact Group 90 (HCG 90) detected in deep U- and I-band images obtained with VLT/VIMOS. These are the first LSB dwarf…

We present CCD surface photometry of 16 nearby dwarf galaxies, many of which were only recently discovered. Our sample comprises both isolated galaxies and galaxies that are members of nearby galaxy groups. The observations were obtained in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. N. Makarova , I. D. Karachentsev , E. K. Grebel , O. Yu. Barsunova

Understanding faint dwarf galaxies is fundamental to the development of a robust theory of galaxy formation on small scales. Since the discovery of a population of ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) rich in globular clusters (GCs) in Coma, an…

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

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

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…

The population of Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies is crucial for understanding the extremes of galaxy formation and evolution of the universe. As LSB galaxies are mostly rich in gas (HI), the alpha.40-SDSS DR7 sample is absolutely one…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Wei Du , Hong Wu , Man I Lam , Yinan Zhu , Fengjie Lei , Zhimin Zhou

Low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies are galaxies with central surface brightness fainter than the night sky. Due to the faint nature of LSB galaxies and the comparable sky background, it is difficult to search LSB galaxies automatically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Zhenping Yi , Jia Li , Wei Du , Meng Liu , Zengxu Liang , Yongguang Xing , Jingchang Pan , Yude Bu , Xiaoming Kong , Hong Wu

At ~50 Mpc, the Hydra I cluster of galaxies is among the closest cluster in the z=0 Universe, and an ideal environment to study dwarf galaxy properties in a cluster environment. We exploit deep imaging data of the Hydra I cluster to…

We conduct a survey of low surface brightness (LSB) satellite galaxies around the Local Volume massive spirals using long exposures with small amateur telescopes. We identified 27 low and very low surface brightness objects around the…

In order to investigate the nature of dwarf Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies we have undertaken a deep B and I band CCD survey of a 14 sq degree strip in the Virgo Cluster and applied a Fourier convolution technique to explore its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Sabatini , J. Davies , W. van Driel , M. Baes , S. Roberts , R. Smith , S. Linder , K. O'Neil

We have obtained deep near-infrared $J$- (1.25 $\mu$m), $H$- (1.65$ \mu$m) and $K_s$-band (2.15 $\mu$m) imaging for a sample of six dwarf galaxies ($M_B\ga-17$ mag) in the Local Volume (LV, $D\la10$ Mpc). The sample consists mainly of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 B. de Swardt , R. C. Kraan-Korteweg , H. Jerjen

We present a photometric study of the early-type dwarf galaxy population of the Centaurus cluster, aiming at investigating the galaxy luminosity function (LF) and galaxy scaling relations down to the regime of galaxies with M_V~-10 mag. On…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Misgeld , M. Hilker , S. Mieske

From $\sim$ 5000 deg$^{2}$ of the combination of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) and Mayall $z$-band Legacy Survey (MzLS) which is also the northern sky region of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-01 Peng-Liang Du , Wei Du , Bing-Qing Zhang , Zhen-Ping Yi , Min He , Hong Wu

We study the spectroscopic properties of a large sample of Low Surface Brightness galaxies (LSBGs) (with B-band central surface brightness mu0(B)>22 mag arcsec^(-2)) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 (SDSS-DR4) main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Y. C. Liang , G. H. Zhong , F. Hammer , X. Y. Chen , F. S. Liu , D. Gao , J. Y. Hu , L. C. Deng , B. Zhang

We present a catalog of extended low-surface-brightness galaxies (LSBGs) identified in the Wide layer of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP). Using the first ${\sim}$200 deg$^2$ of the survey, we have uncovered 781…

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