Bibcode
Knapen, J. H.; Peters, Stephan; van der Kruit, Piet; Trujillo, I.; Fliri, J.; Cisternas, M.
Referencia bibliográfica
IAU General Assembly, Meeting #29, #2256853
Fecha de publicación:
8
2015
Número de citas
0
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Descripción
We use ultra-deep imaging from the IAC Stripe82 Legacy Project to study
the surface photometry of 22 nearby, face-on to moderately inclined
spiral galaxies. The reprocessed and co-added SDSS/Stripe82 imaging
allows us to probe the galaxy down to 29-30
r‧-magnitudes/arcsec2 and thus reach into the very
faint outskirts of the galaxies. We find extended stellar haloes in over
half of our sample galaxies, and truncations in three of them. The
presence of stellar haloes and truncations is mutually exclusive, and we
argue that the presence of a stellar halo can hide a truncation. We find
that the onset of the halo and the truncation scales tightly with galaxy
size. Interestingly, the fraction of light does not correlate with
dynamic mass. We highlight the importance of a proper analysis of the
extended wings of the point spread function (PSF), finding that around
half the light at the faintest levels is from the inner regions, though
not the nucleus, of a galaxy, re-distributed to the outskirts by the
PSF. We discuss implications of this effect for future deep imaging
surveys, such as with the LSST.