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Caption: Figure 8.
Top: results of our artificial resolved dwarf tests at a distance of 3.5 Mpc. It shows the size–luminosity space probed by our tests, along with known Local Group dwarfs (red symbols), Cen A dwarfs (orange squares), and NGC 253 dwarfs (orange triangles). Lines of constant V-band surface brightness are shown at 24, 26, 28, and 30 mag arcsec−2. The colored region shows a recovery completeness map for our simulated dwarfs in size–luminosity space. The blue hatched area at bright magnitudes denotes the approximate region where dwarfs should be easily detected (with ∼100% efficiency), while the orange hatched region corresponds to regions with little chance of dwarf detection (with a presumed 0% recovery); we have not explicitly explored these regions with our simulations. Bottom: RGB false-color images of example simulated faint dwarf galaxies. For each image cutout, the size is 1′ × 1′. Our experiments show that dwarfs as faint as these will be detectable out to 3.5 Mpc.
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