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Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Search Method and Test Sample

  • Authors: Alexei Y. Kniazev, Eva K. Grebel, Simon A. Pustilnik, Alexander G. Pramskij, Tamara F. Kniazeva, Francisco Prada, and Daniel Harbeck

Kniazev et al. 2004 The Astronomical Journal 127 704.

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Direct images of two galaxies from the ISIB96 test sample, SDSS J123116+005939 and SDSS J135943−003133, and of one additional galaxy, SDSS J103806−000319, which was detected in the same fields. All of these galaxies were detected as objects with R ≥ 12﹩\arcsec﹩ only after applying the filtering procedure. Three images are shown for each galaxy. Left: SDSS r‐band images with the target galaxy in the center. Middle: Combined g, r, and i image with a superposed isophote corresponding to the threshold level of the selection criterion. Right: r‐band extracted subimage, which is then stored in the temporary work database and prepared for integrated photometry, i.e., with background/foreground sources and sky subtracted. All images have the same scale, and each object is plotted with the same relative low‐ and high‐intensity threshold values, −3 σ to +15 σ. The images in the left and middle panels have sizes of 117﹩\arcsec﹩ × 117﹩\arcsec﹩. The image sizes in the right panels differ from the former since they depend on the mask sizes.

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