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Out of the Archive: Faint Features of Bright Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

David Malin  and
Brian Hadley
David Malin
Affiliation:
Anglo-Australian Observatory, P.O. Box 296, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
Brian Hadley
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK

Abstract

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Simple photographic techniques are used to enhance and combine many images of (mostly) bright galaxies made from plates in the archive of the UK Schmidt Telescope in Edinburgh. The purpose of this project is to reveal extended faint features of these objects that are less than 0.5 % as bright as the night sky. Presented here are the preliminary results of what we intend to be a substantial atlas. The early results suggest that a remarkably large number of apparently normal galaxies reveal unexpected features when very deep images are produced.

Type
XI. Galaxies
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 148: The Future Utilisation of Schmidt Telescopes , 1995 , pp. 436 - 442
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995

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