Chain Galaxies are Edge-On Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
Astrophysics
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
Deep HST WFPC2 images have revealed a population of very narrow blue galaxies which Cowie et al. (1996) have interpreted as being a new morphological class of intrinsically linear star forming galaxies at . We show that the same population exists in large numbers at low redshifts (z=0.03) and are actually the edge-on manifestation of low surface brightness disk galaxies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9604157,
title = {Chain Galaxies are Edge-On Low Surface Brightness Galaxies},
author = {J. J. Dalcanton and S. A. Shectman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9604157},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
18 pages + 3 pages of figures. Uuencoded, gzipped, tar file of 1 latex file, 5 figures, and 2 latex style files. To appear in the Astrophysical Journal Letters