Is there really a luminosity-surface brightness relation for dwarf galaxies?

Phillipps, S., Davies, Jonathan Ivor and Disney, Michael John 1988. Is there really a luminosity-surface brightness relation for dwarf galaxies? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 233 , pp. 485-488.

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Abstract

A test is made to argue that the luminosity-surface brightness correlation found in eye-selected samples of cluster dwarf galaxies is probably merely the result of selection effects. The test involves the comparison of the apparent magnitude-surface brightness plot of low surface brightness galaxies and the absolute magnitude-surface brightness plot for the same galaxies. It is concluded that there may be large numbers of low surface brightness galaxies in clusters like Virgo which have parameters different from those usually studied.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Uncontrolled Keywords:	brightness distribution, dwarf galaxies, luminosity, galactic evolution, Virgo galactic cluster
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0035-8711
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2017 04:27
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/39211

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