Physical Parmeters of Late Type Spiral Galaxies - II. Surface Brightness Distribution of NGC 7793

  • Kim, Chang-Ha (Department of Astronomy & Meteorology, Yonsei University) ;
  • Chun, Mun-Suk (Department of Astronomy & Meteorology, Yonsei University)
  • Published : 1986.06.01

Abstract

Isophotes and surface brightness distribution were obtained for the late type normal spiral galaxy NGC 7793 (morphological type SA(s)d) which is one of the Sculptor group. The calculated total luminosity $M_{T}$ is obtained as 9.44 and the corrected face on magnitude ${B_T}^{circ}$ is 9.10. The revised distance to this galaxy $\Delta$=3.1 Mpc (de Vaucouleurs and Davoust 1980) is used for calculating the absolute magnitude ${M_T}^{circ}$ = -18.36. From the isophotes, the position angle to the major axis is $101^{circ}$, the mean axial ratio is q=b/a =0.65, and the inclination is i=50$^{circ}$. The concentric indices $C_{21}$=1069 and $C_{32}$ =1.50 are well agreed to the average value of Sd type galaxies.

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