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Lenses and Low Surface Brightness Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

A. Bosma
A. Bosma*
Affiliation:
Sterrewacht, Leiden

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The 21.65-“law” for disk galaxies has been debated ever since Freeman's (1970) paper in which he found that for 28 out of 36 galaxies the extrapolated central surface brightness of the exponential disk component I0, follows this rule with little intrinsic scatter. Some people think it significant, while others invoke selection effects. Bosma and Freeman (1982) made a new attempt to clarify this problem by studying ratios of diameters of disk galaxies on the various Sky Surveys in a region of overlap. The limiting surface brightness levels were calibrated to be 24.6 and 25.6 magn/arcsec2 for the Palomar blue prints and the SRC J films, resp. The distribution of the ratio Γ = diameter (SRC) / diameter (PAL) gives a measure of the true distribution of Io if the galaxy has an exponential disk in the brightness interval 24.6 to 25.6; e.g. Io = 21.6 corresponds to Γ = 1.32, Io = 22.6 to Γ = 1.50 and Io = 23.6 to Γ = 1.90, etc.

Type
IV. Barred Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 100: Internal Kinematics and Dynamics of Galaxies , 1983 , pp. 253 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983 

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