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Total Magnitudes of Virgo Galaxies. I. Construction of a Self-Consistent Reference Dataset Spanning 8th to 18th Magnitude

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Christopher Ke-shih Young
Christopher Ke-shih Young*
Affiliation:
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 80 Nandan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200030, China; [email protected] National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100012, China Department of Astrophysics and Optics, School of Physics, University of New SouthWales, Sydney 2052, Australia; [email protected]
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Abstract

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The main objectives of this series of papers are: (1) to demonstrate the existence of serious mutual disagreements between established total (and other integrated) magnitude scales forVirgo galaxies; (2) to attempt to quantify both the systematic and random errors present within these magnitude scales; (3) to investigate the origins of any large error uncovered; and thereby (4) to encourage the general adoption of rigorous total-magnitude measurement procedures by the astronomical community. The ramifications of the findings presented in this series of papers will be discussed in detail at a later date.

In this paper, the first in the series, a self-consistent dataset of trustworthy total-magnitude measurements is compiled for a sample of Virgo galaxies spanning a range of 10 000 in apparent brightness, based on only the most reliable measurements and photometry currently available. This reference dataset, which includes luminosity profile shape information, will be used in subsequent papers as one of the bases for assessing existing magnitude scales forVirgo galaxies. As most published magnitudes are based on B–band observations, this series of papers will also focus primarily on B–bnd measurements.

Keywords

cataloguesgalaxies: clusters:individual (Virgo)galaxies: fundamental parametersgalaxies:photometrymethods: data analysistechniques: photometric
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , 2001 , pp. 121 - 128
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2001

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