A catalog of low-surface-brightness objects - Declination zone + 20 deg

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May 1988

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Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 95, May 1988, p. 1389-1399, 1580-1585. Research supported by the National Geographic

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Brightness, Celestial Bodies, Galactic Structure, Red Shift, Spatial Distribution, Charge Coupled Devices, Infrared Astronomy Satellite, Line Spectra, Signal To Noise Ratios

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Plates from the second Palomar Sky Survey are used to compile a list of low-surface-brightness objects located along declination zone + 20 deg. Coordinates, descriptions, sizes, and ellipticities are presented using the same selection criteria of 1 arcmin limiting diameter as the Uppsala Catalog of Galaxies (Nilson 1973). Lists of previously known galaxies with new low-surface-brightness features and interesting low-surface-brightness objects with diameters between 0.5 and 1 arcmin are also presented. As expected, the low-surface-brightness end of the luminosity function is dominated by late-type systems and dwarfs. Comparison with CCD surface photometry indicates an average limiting surface brightness of 26.0 B mag/sq arcsec for this survey as compared to 25.2 B mag/sq arcsec for the UGC. On the whole, too few new low-surface-brightness galaxies have been found for the space density of these objects to be higher than that defined by conventional disk galaxies.

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