Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21714715h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #147.15; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Recently it has been well shown that there are three different surface brightness profile types in spiral galaxies: (I) the minority, where the light falls off with a single exponential; (II) truncated, the majority, where the light falls off with one exponential to a break radius and then falls off more steeply; and (III) anti-truncated, where the light falls off with a more shallow exponential beyond the break radius. Additionally, Bakos, Trujillo, & Pohlen (2008) showed that each type has a characteristic color trend with respect to the break location. In dwarf disk galaxies, however, there is a fourth type which is perhaps a special Type II case: the light profile is flat on the inside and then falls off exponentially beyond the break radius. We will show the different color trends for these four profile types from a large photometric study of dwarf disk galaxies and explore the ramifications of the differences between spirals and dwarfs.
We gratefully acknowledge funding for this research from the National Science Foundation (AST-0707563).
Herrmann Kimberly A.
Hunter Deidre Ann
Little Things Team
Zhang Hong-Xia
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