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DOI
Aguerri, J. A. L.; Varela, A. M.; Prieto, M.; Muñoz-Tuñón, C.
Bibliographical reference
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 119, Issue 4, pp. 1638-1644.
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2000
Citations
13
Refereed citations
10
Description
We present accurate optical surface photometry in the U, B, V, R, and I
passbands for 11 disk galaxies. The sample has been selected in order to
study the different morphological structures present in disk galaxies
and includes all morphological types. For each galaxy, we present
surface brightness, ellipticity, and position angle radial profiles from
ellipse fits to the isophotes. Color index images and color index
profiles in U-B, B-V, and B-I are also shown. The photometric
information obtained is crucial to understanding the different
morphological structures presented in all these galaxies, and to obtain
their mass distributions. The latter topic will be the subject of a
forthcoming paper. Based on observations made with the Isaac Newton
Telescope, operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group
in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto
de Astrofísica de Canarias.