Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-08-28
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 338 (2003) 72
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06018.x
This paper considers some simple surface brightness (SB) estimates for galaxies in the Automated Plate Measuring Machine (APM) catalogue in order to derive homogeneous SB data for a very large sample of faint galaxies. The isophotal magnitude and area are used to estimate the central surface brightness and total magnitude based on the assumption of an exponential SB profile. The surface brightness measurements are corrected for field effects on each UK Schmidt plate and the zero-point of each plate is adjusted to give a uniform sample of SB and total magnitude estimates over the whole survey. Results are obtained for 2.4 million galaxies with blue photographic magnitudes brighter than b_J = 20.5 covering 4300 deg^2 in the region of the south galactic cap. Almost all galaxies in our sample have central surface brightness in the range 20 to 24 b_J mag per arcsec^2. The SB measurements we obtain are compared to previous SB measurements and we find an acceptable level of error of +/- 0.2 b_J mag per arcsec^2. The distribution of SB profiles is considered for different galaxy morphologies for the bright APM galaxies. We find that early-type galaxies have more centrally concentrated profiles.
Coles Peter
Jones Jeremy B.
Maddox Steve J.
Shao Zhengyi
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