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A dichotomy between HSB and LSB galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Marc Verheijen
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, New Mexico
Brent Tully
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu, Hawaii

Abstract

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A complete sample of spiral galaxies in the Ursa Major cluster is imaged at various optical wavelengths and in the Near-Infrared K′-band. HI rotation curves were obtained for all gas rich systems. The Near-Infrared surface brightness distribution of disk galaxies turns out to be bimodal; galaxies avoid a domain around mag/arcsec2. This bimodality is particularly striking when only the more isolated, non-interacting systems are considered. The Luminosity Function of the HSB family of galaxies is truncated well above the completion limit while the Luminosity Function of the LSB family is still sharply rising at our limiting magnitude. Near-Infrared mass-to-light ratios suggest that HSB galaxies are close to a kinematic maximum-disk situation while LSB galaxies are dark matter dominated at all radii. Assuming equal Near-Infrared mass-to-light ratios for both HSB and LSB systems, we find that the gap in the surface brightness distribution corresponds to a situation in which the baryonic mass is marginally self-gravitating. We finally conclude that the luminosity-line width relation is a fundamental correlation between the amount and distribution of dark matter mass and the total luminosity, regardless of how the luminous mass is distributed within the dark mater halo.

Type
Luminosity and surface brightness distributions
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999

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