J/A+A/405/99 LSB galaxies in near-infrared. I. (Monnier-Ragaigne+, 2003)
A search for Low Surface Brightness galaxies in the near-infrared.
I. Selection of the sample.
Monnier-Ragaigne D., van Driel W., Schneider S.E., Jarrett T.H.,
Balkowski C.
<Astron. Astrophys. 405, 99 (2003)>
=2003A&A...405...99M 2003A&A...405...99M
ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Galaxies, photometry ; Photometry, infrared
Keywords: galaxies: fundamental parameters - galaxies: general -
galaxies: photometry - infrared: galaxies
Abstract:
A sample of about 3800 Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies was
selected using the all-sky near-infrared (J, H and Ks-band) 2MASS
survey. The selected objects have a mean central surface brightness
within a 5" radius around their centre fainter than 18mag/arcsec2
in the Ks band, making them the lowest surface brightness galaxies
detected by 2MASS. A description is given of the relevant properties
of the 2MASS survey and the LSB galaxy selection procedure, as well as
of basic photometric properties of the selected objects. The latter
properties are compared to those of other samples of galaxies, of both
LSBs and "classical'' high surface brightness (HSB) objects, which
were selected in the optical. The 2MASS LSBs have a BTc-KT colour
colour which is on average 0.9mag bluer than that of HSBs from the
NGC. The 2MASS sample does not appear to contain a significant
population of red objects.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table1.dat 78 836 Large objects
table2.dat 77 2900 Small objects
table3.dat 77 58 LCSB objects - the Faint sources sample
fig2a.ps 72 14302 *2MASS images of the selected LCSB sources.
fig2b.ps 72 14302 2MASS images of the selected LCSB sources cont.
fig2c.ps 72 14302 2MASS images of the selected LCSB sources cont.
fig2d.ps 72 14302 2MASS images of the selected LCSB sources cont.
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Note on fig2a.ps: J-band greyscale images with superimposed -band contours.
The size of each image (in arcsec) is indicated in its bottom right corner.
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See also:
J/A+A/408/67 : LSB galaxies in near-infrared. II. (Monnier-Ragaigne+, 2003)
J/A+A/408/465 : LSB galaxies in near-infrared. III. (Monnier-Ragaigne+, 2003)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat table2.dat table3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1 A1 --- --- [(] Note (1)
2- 7 A6 --- ID Identification of the galaxy
8 A1 --- --- [)] Note (1)
10 A1 --- --- [(] Note (1)
11- 24 A14 --- 2MASXi 2MASS Extended sources, intermediate release
25 A1 --- f_2MASXi [)] Note (1)
27- 33 I7 --- PGC ? PGC number
35- 59 A25 --- OName Other name
61- 65 F5.2 mag/arcsec2 SuBrK5 Mean central surface brightness measured
within a radius of 5" around the
source's center in the Ks band
67- 72 F6.3 mag/arcsec2 SuBrB25 ? Mean B-band surface brightness within
the D25 blue isophotal diameter, at a
level of 25mag/arcsec2, as listed in LEDA
74- 78 A5 --- Obs Observations (2)
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Note (1): Source names in brackets are not found in later versions of
the public 2MASS database (see Sect. 4 of paper).
Note (2): Information on available observations:
A for our Arecibo detections,
a for the non-detections,
N for our detections ,
n for the non-detections,
O for other published detections,
P for our BVRI optical surface photometry data.
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History:
* 12-Sep-2003: Original version
* 27-Mar-2007: table1.dat, OName corrected for the following ID's:
-- table1: L495O L680O L277O L427O
-- table2: S941O S12O S1887O S2206O S2212O S2213O S2223O S2230O S2235O
S2881O
Acknowledgements:
Wim van Driel <Wim.vanDriel(at)obspm(fr)>
(End) Patricia Bauer [CDS] 12-Sep-2003