J/MNRAS/317/234     HJK photometry of 10 barred spirals  (Perez-Ramirez+, 2000)

Circumnuclear regions in barred spiral galaxies I. Near-infrared imaging Perez-Ramirez D., Knapen J.H., Peletier R.F., Laine S., Doyon R., Nadeau D. <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 317, 234 (2000)> =2000MNRAS.317..234P 2000MNRAS.317..234P
ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, photometry ; Photometry, infrared Keywords: galaxies: spiral - galaxies: starburst - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: structure - infrared: galaxies Description: We have obtained NIR broad-band images in the J, H and K bands of 12 barred galaxies that make up our sample, during three observing runs with the 3.6 m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii. We used the Montreal NIR camera (MONICA) equipped with a 256 x 256 pixel HgCdTe array detector with a projected size of 0.248 arcsec. One of the main data products presented in this paper is a set of detailed radial profile fits to the NIR images. We present radial profiles of ellipticity, major axis position angle, NIR colour, and H- band surface brightness. We have used aperture photometry from the literature to calibrate the data. After calibrating the images, we fitted ellipses to the images. We thus produced plots of the surface brightness of the H- band as a function of the radius, and colour profiles in J-K and H-K for all the galaxies which were imaged in these bands. Error-bars in these plots indicate the uncertainty in the determination of the sky background. Certain aspects of the radial profiles are discussed in the paper, but there is one characteristic which is worth mentioning here. Apart from NGC 3516 and NGC 3982, the radial profiles show characteristic behaviour near the radius of the circumnuclear ring. In seven (out of 10) galaxies, all profiles (surface brightness, colour, ellipticity and position angle) show either a change in slope, where the surface brightness profile becomes steeper, or a bump, when the colour profile shows a limited redder region caused by either dust or SF in or near the ring. These characteristics are accompanied by some change in ellipticity and position angle. Objects: ------------------------------------------- RA (2000) DE Designation(s) ------------------------------------------- 00 29 18.0 +02 52 18 NGC 130 00 34 02.3 -09 42 23 NGC 153 00 51 18. -73 09 00 NGC 290 00 59 19.8 -18 14 02 NGC 335 01 01 56.8 -06 47 44 NGC 350 01 01 57.8 -01 56 03 NGC 351 01 08 53.7 +32 30 52 NGC 398 01 13 00.2 -00 15 11 NGC 430 01 14 04.7 +33 42 13 NGC 431 01 11 46.3 -61 31 40 NGC 432 01 24 47.9 +09 32 21 NGC 524 01 51 14.5 +22 34 57 NGC 695 ------------------------------------------- File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file tables.dat 58 527 The photometric profiles -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: tables.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 8 A8 --- NGC Galaxy NGC (Cat. VII/118) designation 10- 14 F5.2 arcsec Rad Major axis radius 16- 20 F5.2 mag/arcsec+2 Hmag H-band surface brightness profile 22- 25 F4.2 mag/arcsec+2 e_Hmag Error in the determination of sky 27- 30 F4.2 mag/arcsec+2 J-K ? J-K colour profile 32- 35 F4.2 mag/arcsec+2 e_J-K ? Error in the determination of sky 37- 41 F5.2 mag/arcsec+2 H-K ? H-K colour profile 43- 46 F4.2 mag/arcsec+2 e_H-K ? Error in the determination of sky 48- 51 F4.2 --- Ell Ellipticity (1-b/a) 53- 58 F6.2 deg PA [-90/366]? Major axis position angle (around a mean position) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgements: Dolores Perez-Ramirez , Johan Knapen
(End) Patricia Bauer [CDS] 03-Jul-2000
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