HSC gLSB galaxies structures and SB properties Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Saburova A.S.
  2. Chilingarian I.V.
  3. Kulier A.
  4. Galaz G.
  5. Grishin K.A.,Kasparova A.V.
  6. Toptun V.
  7. Katkov I.Y.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Rare giant low surface brightness galaxies (gLSBGs) act as a stress test for the current galaxy formation paradigm. To answer the question 'How rare are they?', we estimate their volume density in the local Universe. A visual inspection of 120 deg^2^ covered by deep Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam data was performed independently by four team members. We detected 42 giant disky systems (30 of them isolated) at z <= 0.1 with either g-band 27.7 mag arcsec^-2^ isophotal radius or four disc scale lengths 4h => 50 kpc, 37 of which (including 25 isolated) had low central surface brightness ({mu}_0,g_ => 22.7 mag arcsec^-2^). This corresponds to volume densities of 4.70*10^-5^ Mpc^-3^ for all galaxies with giant extended discs and 4.04*10^-5^Mpc^-3^ for gLSBGs, which converts to ~12700 such galaxies in the entire sky out to z < 0.1. These estimates agree well with the result of the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. Giant disky galaxies represent the large-sized end of the volume density distribution of normal-sized spirals, suggesting the non-exceptional nature of giant discs. We observe a high active galactic nucleus fraction among the newly found gLSBGs.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. ring-galaxies
  3. redshifted
  4. galaxy-classification-systems
  5. photometry
  6. visible-astronomy
  7. x-ray-sources
  8. active-galactic-nuclei
  9. galaxy-radii
  10. absolute-magnitude
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2023MNRAS.520L..85S
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/520/L85
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/520/L85

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https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/520/L85
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/520/L85
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/520/L85
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IVOA Cone Search SCS
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https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/520/L85/table1?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/520/L85/table1?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/520/L85/table1?

History

2026-06-12T10:50:35Z
Resource record created
2026-06-12T10:21:06Z
Updated
2026-06-12T10:50:35Z
Created

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