Chain Galaxies are Edge-On Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

Abstract

Deep HST WFPC2 images have revealed a population of very narrow blue galaxies which Cowie et al. (1996) have interpreted as being a new morphological class of intrinsically linear star forming galaxies at $z=0.5-3$. We show that the same population exists in large numbers at low redshifts (z=0.03) and are actually the edge-on manifestation of low surface brightness disk galaxies.

18 pages + 3 pages of figures. Uuencoded, gzipped, tar file of 1 latex file, 5 figures, and 2 latex style files. To appear in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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