Low Surface Brightness Galaxies around the HDF-S: I. Object extraction and photometric results

Abstract

This study reports on photometric results of a search for LSB galaxies in a 0.76deg^2 field centered on the HDF-S. We present results from photometric analysis of the derived sample galaxies and compare number densities to results of former surveys. We used public data from the NOAO Deep Wide-Field survey and the multi-wavelength Goddard Space Flight Center survey. The former reaches a limiting surface brightness of mu_BW~29 magarcsec^-2 and is therefore one of the most sensitive ground based data sets systematically analyzed for LSB galaxies. To reduce the contamination by High Surface Brightness (HSB) galaxies at higher redshift, mimicking LSBs due to the ''Tolman Dimming'' effect, we placed a lower diameter limit of 10.8 arcsec and compared the colors of our candidate galaxies with the redshift tracks of 5 ''standard'' HSB galaxy types. We report the detection of 37 galaxies with low apparent central surface brightness (mu_BW>=22 magarcsec^-2). Using color-color diagrams we were able to derive a subsample of 9 LSB galaxy candidates with intrinsic central surface brightnesses below mu_(0,BW)=22.5 magarcsec^-2 and diameters larger than the preselected size limit of 10.8 arcsec. We selected three additional LSB candidates due to there extreme low blue central surface brightness (mu_BW>=25 magarcsec^-2). These galaxies were only found in the larger and more sensitive NOAO data. So finally we derived a sample of 12 LSB galaxy candidates and therfore this survey results in a four times higher surface density than other CCD based surveys for field galaxies before.

22 pages, 23 figures, A&A in press

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