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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 133, Issue 3, Pages 1085-1091Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/511180
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galaxies : individual (Malin 1); galaxies : spiral; galaxies : structure
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Since its discovery, Malin 1 has been considered the prototype and most extreme example of the class of giant low surface brightness disk galaxies. Examination of an archival Hubble Space Telescope I-band image reveals that Malin 1 contains a normal stellar disk that was not previously recognized, having a central I-band surface brightness of mu(0) = 20.1 mag arcsec(-2) and a scale length of 4.8 kpc. Out to a radius of similar to 10 kpc, the structure of Malin 1 is that of a typical SB0/a galaxy. The remarkably extended, faint outer structure detected out to r approximate to 100 kpc appears to be a photometrically distinct component and not a simple extension of the inner disk. In terms of its disk scale length and central surface brightness, Malin 1 was originally found to be a very remote outlier relative to all other known disk galaxies. The presence of a disk of normal size and surface brightness in Malin 1 suggests that such extreme outliers in disk properties probably do not exist, but underscores the importance of the extended outer disk regions for a full understanding of the structure and formation of spiral galaxies.
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