Surface photometry of NGC 5907 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Zheng Z.
  2. Shang Z.
  3. Su H.
  4. Burstein D.
  5. Chen J.
  6. Deng Z.
  7. Byun Y.-I.,Chen R.
  8. Chen W.-P.
  9. Deng L.
  10. Fan X.
  11. Fang Li-Z.
  12. Hester J.J.
  13. Jiang Z.,Li Y.
  14. Lin W.
  15. Sun W.-H.
  16. Tsay W.-S.
  17. Windhorst R.A.
  18. Wu H.
  19. Xia X.,Xu W.
  20. Xue S.
  21. Yan H.
  22. Zheng Z.
  23. Zhou X.
  24. Zhu J.
  25. Zou Z.
  26. Lu P.
  27. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Intrigued by the initial report of an extended luminosity distribution perpendicular to the disk of the edge-on Sc galaxy NGC 5907, we have obtained very deep exposures of this galaxy with a Schmidt telescope, large-format CCD, and intermediate-band filters centered at 6660 {AA} and 8020 {AA}. These two filters, part of a 15-filter set, are custom designed to avoid the brightest (and most variable) night skylines. As a result, our images are able to go deeper with lower sky noise than those taken with broadband filters at similar effective wavelengths: e.g., 0.6 e^-^ arcsec^-2^ s^-1^ for our observations versus 7.4 e^-^ arcsec^-2^ s-1 for the R-band measures of Morrison et al. (1994AJ....108.1191M). In our assessment of both random and systematic errors, we show that the flux level where the errors of observation reach 1 mag arcsec^-2^ are 29.00 mag arcsec^-2^ in the 6660 {AA} image (corresponding to 28.7 in the R band) and 27.4 mag arcsec^-2^ in the 8020 {AA} image (essentially on the I-band system)

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. photometry
  3. surface-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1999AJ....117.2757Z
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Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51172757

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History

2000-04-12T21:43:00Z
Resource record created
2000-04-12T21:43:00Z
Created
2023-04-06T16:50:33Z
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