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Counting the Ghosts: Optical Field Surveys for Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Julianne J. Dalcanton
Julianne J. Dalcanton*
Affiliation:
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena CA 91101 andUniversity of Washington, Department of Astronomy, Box 351580 Seattle WA 98195

Abstract

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Given the difficulties in detecting even a single LSB, surveying statistically significant numbers of LSBs presents a daunting task. Large, systematic surveys with well understood selection criteria are necessary for assessing the full cosmological significance of the LSB population. Here I briefly review some of the progress which has been made in the last ten years, and suggest strategies which may prove fruitful in the future.

Type
Low Surface Brightness galaxy surveys
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 171: The Low Surface Brightness Universe , 1999 , pp. 131 - 137
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999

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