Hunting for Ghosts: Low Surface Brightness Galaxies from Pixels
Abstract
We outline an approach devoted to the detection of low surface brightness galaxies on astronomical images. We use a multi-scale approach, take into account sources of incompleteness and check selection functions both analytically and with simulations.
- Publication:
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Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons
- Pub Date:
- May 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921307014123
- Bibcode:
- 2008IAUS..244..295S
- Keywords:
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- Low Surface Brightness galaxies