Optical & NIR photometry of the interacting Dwarf Galaxies II Zw 70/II Zw 71

Details Optical & NIR photometry of the interacting Dwarf Galaxies II Zw 70/II Zw 71 Optical & NIR photometry of the interacting Dwarf Galaxies II Zw 70/II Zw 71

2001-10-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110078v1

"Dwarf Galaxies and their Environment", Eds. K.S. de Boer, R.-J. Dettmar, U. Klein; Bad Honnef, Germany, 23-27 January 2001; S

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures; also available at http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~webgk/dgeproc/dge283.ps.gz

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We obtained deep optical and NIR images of the pair of blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies II Zw 70 and II Zw 71 in order to study the effects of interaction on the structural properties of their stellar low-surface-brightness (LSB) component. We find that within their Holmberg radius the interacting BCDs under study do not differ significantly in terms of the central surface brightness and exponential scale length of their LSB hosts from typical iE/nE systems. In the faint outskirts (26.2 < mu_B [mag arcsec^-2^] < 28.5) of both systems, however, the present data reveal conspicuous morphological distortions, most notably an extended feature protruding as far as ~9 kpc from the starburst region of II Zw 70 in the direction of II Zw 71. The relatively blue colors of this stellar extension, together with its apparent spatial coincidence with the massive HI streamer connecting the dwarf galaxies, are consistent with the hypothesis that it originates from recent star formation within the gaseous halo of II Zw 70, rather than from stellar matter torn out of the LSB host of the BCD during the interaction.The results presented here support the view that important signatures of the dynamical response and secular evolution of the stellar LSB component in interacting dwarf galaxies can be found in their very faint outskirts.

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