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T1 Palomar/Las Campanas Imaging Atlas of blue compact dwarf galaxies. II. Surface photometry and the properties of the underlying stellar population
A1 Gil de Paz, Armando
A1 Madore, B. F.
AB We present the results from an analysis of surface photometry of B, R, and Hα images of a total of 114 nearby galaxies (v_helio < 4000 km s^-1) drawn from the Palomar/Las Campanas Imaging Atlas of blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies. Surface brightness and color profiles for the complete sample have been obtained. We determine the exponential and Sérsic profiles that best fit the surface brightness distribution of the underlying stellar population detected in these galaxies. We also compute the (B - R) color and total absolute magnitude of the underlying stellar population and compared them to the integrated properties of the galaxies in the sample. Our analysis shows that the (B - R) color of the underlying population is systematically redder than the integrated color, except in those galaxies where the integrated colors are strongly contaminated by line and nebular-continuum emission. We also find that galaxies with relatively red underlying stellar populations [typically (B - R) ≥ 1 mag] show structural properties compatible with those of dwarf elliptical galaxies (i.e., a smooth light distribution, fainter extrapolated central surface brightness, and larger scale lengths than BCD galaxies with blue underlying stellar populations). At least ~15% of the galaxies in the sample are compatible with being dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxies experiencing a burst of star formation. For the remaining BCD galaxies in the sample we do not find any correlation between the recent star formation activity and their structural differences with respect to other types of dwarf galaxies.
PB University Chicago Press
SN 0067-0049
YR 2005
FD 2005-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51779
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51779
LA eng
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NO © 2005. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We are grateful to the Palomar and Las Campanas Observatories staff for their support and hospitality, and to the Caltech/ Palomar and OCIW/Las Campanas Time Allocation Committees for the generous allocation of time to this project. A. Gil de Paz acknowledges financial support from the GALEX mission. A. Gil de Paz is also partially supported by the CONACYT (Mexico) grant 36132-E, the Spanish Programa Nacional de Astronomía y Astrofísica under grant AYA2000-1790, and by NASA through grant HST-AR-10321 from STScI. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We would like also to thank K. G. Noeske, C. Sánchez Contreras, and S. Boissier for valuable discussions and to P. Papaderos for providing his compilation of structural properties of dwarf galaxies. We are grateful to the anonymous referee for her/his helpful comments and suggestions.
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