Bibcode
Knapen, J. H.; Peters, S. P. C.; van der Kruit, P. C.; Trujillo, I.; Fliri, J.; Cisternas, M.; Kelvin, L. S.
Bibliographical reference
The General Assembly of Galaxy Halos: Structure, Origin and Evolution, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 317, pp. 39-44
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2016
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Description
We use ultra-deep imaging from the IAC Stripe 82 Legacy Project to study
the surface photometry of 22 nearby, face-on to moderately inclined
spiral galaxies. The reprocessed and co-added SDSS/Stripe 82 imaging
allows us to probe down to 29-30 r'-mag/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. 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 of a galaxy, though not the nucleus, re-distributed to the
outskirts by the PSF. We discuss implications of this effect for future
deep imaging surveys, such as with the LSST.