Surface photometry of NGC 5907

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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)

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.51172757
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Provenance
Creator Zheng Z.; Shang Z.; Su H.; Burstein D.; Chen J.; Deng Z.; Byun Y.-I.,Chen R.; Chen W.-P.; Deng L.; Fan X.; Fang Li-Z.; Hester J.J.; Jiang Z.,Li Y.; Lin W.; Sun W.-H.; Tsay W.-S.; Windhorst R.A.; Wu H.; Xia X.,Xu W.; Xue S.; Yan H.; Zhou X.; Zhu J.; Zou Z.; Lu P.
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Publication Year 2000
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics