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A K-band central disk surface-brightness correlation with scale-length for early-type disk galaxies, and the inclination correction | | Alister W. Graham
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6 Apr 2001 | | Journal: | Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 326 (2001) 543 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias | | Abstract: | The K-band light-profiles from two statistically complete, diameter-limited samples of disk galaxies have been simultaneously modelled with a seeing-convolved Sersic r^{1/n} bulge and a seeing-convolved exponential disk. This has enabled an accurate separation of the bulge and disk light, and hence an estimate of the central disk surface brightness mu_{0,K} and the disk scale-length h. There exists a bright envelope of galaxy disks in the mu_{0,K}-log h diagram; for the early-type (50 deg) galaxies having morphological types ranging from S0 to Sc, the need for an inclination correction to the K-band disk surface brightness is demonstrated. Measured central disk surface brightnesses are found to be significantly (>5-sigma) brighter for the high-inclination disk galaxies than for the low-inclination disk galaxies. With no surface brightness inclination correction or allowance for the trend between mu_{0,K} and log h, the standard deviation to the distribution of mu_{0,K} values is ~1 mag arcsec^{-2}, while the standard deviation about the mean mu_{0,K}-log h relation decreases from 0.69 mag arcsec^{-2}, when no inclination correction is applied, to 0.47 mag arcsec^{-2} when the inclination correction is applied. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0104111 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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