Bibcode
DOI
Graham, Alister W.; de Blok, W. J. G.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 556, Issue 1, pp. 177-180.
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2001
Journal
Citations
37
Refereed citations
31
Description
We present observational evidence for a galaxy ``type'' dependence to
the location of a spiral galaxy's disk parameters in the
μ0-logh plane. With a sample of approximately 40 low
surface brightness galaxies (both bulge- and disk-dominated) and
approximately 80 high surface brightness galaxies, the early-type disk
galaxies (<=Sc) tend to define a bright envelope in the
μ0-logh plane, while the late-type (>=Scd) spiral
galaxies have, in general, smaller and fainter disks. Below the defining
surface brightness threshold for a low surface brightness galaxy (i.e.,
more than 1 mag fainter than the 21.65 B mag arcsec-2 Freeman
value), the early-type spiral galaxies have scale lengths greater than
8-9 kpc, while the late-type spiral galaxies have smaller scale lengths.
All galaxies have been modeled with a seeing-convolved Sérsic
r1/n bulge and exponential disk model. We show that the trend
of decreasing bulge shape parameter n with increasing Hubble type and
decreasing bulge-to-disk luminosity ratio, which has been observed among
the high surface brightness galaxies, extends to the low surface
brightness galaxies, revealing a continuous range of structural
parameters.