What do galaxies look like beyond 31 mag/arcsec2?
Abstract
Detection of optical surface brightness structures with magnitudes fainter than 30 mag/arcsec2 has remained elusive in current photometric deep surveys. We are conducting a new imaging strategy to cross that frontier and address the study of outskirts of galaxies and theories of galaxy formation.
- Publication:
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Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Outskirts
- Pub Date:
- March 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921316009157
- Bibcode:
- 2017IAUS..321..274C
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: evolution;
- galaxies: formation;
- galaxies: halos;
- techniques: photometric