NGC 300: An Extremely Faint, Outer Stellar Disk Observed to 10 Scale Lengths.

Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Vlajic, M; Freeman, Kenneth; Draine, Bruce T

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NGC 300: An Extremely Faint, Outer Stellar Disk Observed to 10 Scale Lengths.

Date

2005

Authors

Bland-Hawthorn, Joss

Vlajic, M

Freeman, Kenneth

Draine, Bruce T

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We have used the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini South 8 m telescope in exceptional conditions (0.″6 FWHM seeing) to observe the outer stellar disk of the Sculptor Group galaxy NGC 300 at two locations. At our point-source detectio