Statistics
Scientific paper
Jan 2012
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #106.05
Statistics
Scientific paper
Radial stellar surface brightness profiles of spiral galaxies can be classified into three types: (I) single exponential, (II) truncated: the light falls off with one exponential out to a break radius and then falls off more steeply, and (III) anti-truncated: the light falls off with one exponential out to a break radius and then falls off less steeply. Stellar surface brightness profile breaks are also found in dwarf disk galaxies, but with an additional category: (FI) flat-inside: the light is roughly constant or increasing and then falls off beyond a break. We have been re-examining the multi-wavelength stellar disk profiles of 141 dwarf galaxies, primarily from Hunter & Elmegreen (2006, 2004). Each dwarf has data in up to 11 wavelength bands: FUV and NUV from GALEX, UBVJHK and H-alpha from ground-based observations, and 3.6 and 4.5 microns from Spitzer. In this talk, I will highlight results from a semi-automatic fitting of this data set, including: (1) statistics of break locations and other properties as a function of wavelength and profile type, (2) color trends and radial mass distribution as a function of profile type, and (3) the relationship of the break radius to the kinematics and density profiles of atomic hydrogen gas in the 41 dwarfs of the LITTLE THINGS subsample.
We gratefully acknowledge funding for this research from the National Science Foundation (AST-0707563).
Herrmann Kimberly A.
Little Things Team
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