V- and I-band observations of the halo of NGC 5907

Details V- and I-band observations of the halo of NGC 5907 V- and I-band observations of the halo of NGC 5907

1996-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9606172v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Latex, 4 pages, l-aa.sty and psfig.sty, 3 figures. 207K gzipped tar file. Accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters

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Using long exposures taken in the V and I bands with a 4096$\times$4096 pixel CCD array at the prime focus of the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope, we have confirmed the discovery by Sackett et al. (1994) of a flat, faint luminous halo around the edge-on Sc galaxy NGC$\thinspace$5907. This halo is redder than the disk. Its nature is still an observational challenge. We suggest however that its color can only be accounted for by stars less massive than 0.8 $M_{\odot}$. Their total mass in NGC$\thinspace$5907 is very uncertain, but it might possibly account for the excess dynamical mass in this galaxy. Alternatively their distribution might trace the dark potential without contributing signifi- cantly to the mass. We give upper limits to the extinction by an hypothetical dust in the halo.

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