Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-06-23
Astrophys.J. 613 (2004) 886-897
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
33 pages with 17 Postscript figures, uses aastex.cls, accepted by ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/423229
We present surface photometry results for a sample of eleven edge-on galaxies observed with the 6m telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory (Russia). The photometric scale length, scale height, and central surface brightness of the stellar disks of our sample galaxies are estimated. We show that four galaxies in our sample, which are visually referred as objects of the lowest surface brightness class in the Revised Flat Galaxies Catalog, have bona fide low surface brightness (LSB) disks. We find from the comparison of photometric scales that the stellar disks of LSB galaxies are thinner than those of high surface brightness (HSB) ones. There is a clear correlation between the central surface brightness of the stellar disk and its vertical to radial scale ratio. The masses of spherical subsystems (dark halo + bulge) and the dark halo masses are obtained for the sample galaxies based on the thickness of their stellar disks. The LSB galaxies tend to harbor more massive spherical subsystems than the HSB objects, whereas no systematic difference in the dark halo masses between LSB and HSB galaxies is found. At the same time, the inferred mass-to-luminosity ratio for the LSB disks appears to be systematically higher than for HSB disks.
Bizyaev Dmitry
Kajsin Serafim
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