The Distribution of Disks in the μ0-log h Plane and the Inclination Correction

Graham, A. W.; Balcells, M.; Peletier, R. F.
Referencia bibliográfica

Disks of Galaxies: Kinematics, Dynamics and Peturbations, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 275. Edited by E. Athanassoula, A. Bosma, and R. Mujica. ISBN: 1-58381-117-6. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2002, p. 21

Fecha de publicación:
12
2002
Número de autores
3
Número de autores del IAC
2
Número de citas
0
Número de citas referidas
0
Descripción
A further fundamental modification needs to be made to the Freeman (1970) law, such that not only do LSB galaxies possess fainter central surface brightnesses than the canonical Freeman value, but the upper limit is in fact an upper (bright) `envelope' of points in the central disk surface-brightness - log(scale-length) diagram, with slope ~2.