Photometry of Dorado Group Dwarf Galaxies

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We present V and I CCD photometry of suspected low surface brightness dwarf galaxies detected in a survey covering ~2.4 deg^2^ around the central region of the Dorado group of galaxies. The low surface brightness galaxies were chosen based on their sizes and magnitudes at the limiting isophote of 26V{mu}. The selected galaxies have magnitudes brighter than V~20 (MV~-11 for an assumed distance to the group of 17.2 Mpc), with central surface brightnesses {mu}0>22.5 Vmag.arcsec^-2^, scale lengths h>2", and diameters >=14" at the limiting isophote. Using these criteria, we identified 69 dwarf galaxy candidates. Four of them are large very low surface brightness galaxies that were detected on a smoothed image, after masking high surface brightness objects. Monte Carlo simulations performed to estimate completeness, photometric uncertainties and to evaluate our ability to detect extended low surface brightness galaxies show that the completeness fraction is, on average, >80% for dwarf galaxies with -17<MV<-10.5 and 22.5<{mu}0=14"). The V-I colors of the dwarf candidates vary from -0.3 to 2.3 with a peak on V-I=0.98, suggesting a range of different stellar populations in these galaxies. The projected surface density of the dwarf galaxies shows a concentration toward the group center similar in extent to that found around five X-ray groups and the elliptical galaxy NGC 1132 studied by Mulchaey & Zabludoff (1999ApJ...514..133M), suggesting that the dwarf galaxies in Dorado are probably physically associated with the overall potential well of the group.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.51210148
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Creator Carrasco E.R.; De Oliveira C.M.; Infante L.; Bolte M.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2005
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics