Unveiling a Rich System of Faint Dwarf Galaxies in the Next Generation Fornax Survey

Abstract

We report the discovery of 158 previously undetected dwarf galaxies in the Fornax cluster central regions using a deep coadded $u,g$ and $i$-band image obtained with the DECam wide-field camera mounted on the 4-meter Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory as part of the {\it Next Generation Fornax Survey} (NGFS). The new dwarf galaxies have quasi-exponential light profiles, effective radii $0.1<r_e<2.8$ kpc and average effective surface brightness values $22.0<{\mu }_i<28.0$ mag arcsec${}^{-2}$. We confirm the existence of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Fornax core regions that resemble counterparts recently discovered in the Virgo and Coma galaxy clusters.~We also find extremely low surface brightness NGFS dwarfs, which are several magnitudes fainter than the classical UDGs. The faintest dwarf candidate in our NGFS sample has an absolute magnitude of $M_i=-8.0$\,mag. The nucleation fraction of the NGFS dwarf galaxy sample appears to decrease as a function of their total luminosity, reaching from a nucleation fraction of $>75\%$ at luminosities brighter than $M_i\simeq -15.0$ mag to $0\%$ at luminosities fainter than $M_i\simeq -10.0$ mag. The two-point correlation function analysis of the NGFS dwarf sample shows an excess on length scales below $\sim 100$ kpc, pointing to the clustering of dwarf galaxies in the Fornax cluster core.

6 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Download the high-resolution version of the paper from the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xb9vz8s29wlzjgf/ms.pdf?dl=0

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