“Chain” Galaxies Are Edge-On Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

1996/04/26 by Julianne J. Dalcanton, J. J. Dalcanton, S. A. Shectman +1 · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Brightness #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Galaxy group #Peculiar galaxy #Population #Redshift #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Surface brightness #Surface brightness fluctuation #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/310124

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

arxiv created 1996/04/26 · openalex publication_date 1996/07/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Deep HST WFPC2 images have revealed a population of very narrow blue galaxies, which Cowie et al. have interpreted as being a new morphological class of intrinsically linear star forming galaxies at z = 0.5-3. 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.

Citations

• The Contribution of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies to Faint Galaxy Counts

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