A Tale of NGC 3785: The Formation of an Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy at the end of the Longest Tidal Tail
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| author | Watts, Chandan Barway, Sudhanshu Bait, Omkar Wadadekar, Yogesh |
| author_facet | Watts, Chandan Barway, Sudhanshu Bait, Omkar Wadadekar, Yogesh |
| contents | We present the discovery of an extended and faint tail observed in the isolated environment associated with galaxy NGC 3785. This study additionally provides observational evidence supporting the formation of ultra-diffuse galaxies at the end of the tail. We utilized the Gnuastro software to detect and analyse the low surface brightness structures in the optical $g$, and $r$ bands using data from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey. We created a detection map to identify the faint tail, and measured its length using cubic spline fitting. Additionally, we found 84 star-forming clumps along the tail and performed photometric analysis on the tail portion after applying a significance threshold on the signal-to-noise ratio. We have measured the projected length of the tail, which is $\sim$390 kpc. We propose that this tail arises from the interaction of the NGC 3785 with a gas-rich galaxy, which ends up as ultra-diffuse galaxy at the end of the tail. |
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| spellingShingle | A Tale of NGC 3785: The Formation of an Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy at the end of the Longest Tidal Tail Watts, Chandan Barway, Sudhanshu Bait, Omkar Wadadekar, Yogesh Astrophysics of Galaxies We present the discovery of an extended and faint tail observed in the isolated environment associated with galaxy NGC 3785. This study additionally provides observational evidence supporting the formation of ultra-diffuse galaxies at the end of the tail. We utilized the Gnuastro software to detect and analyse the low surface brightness structures in the optical $g$, and $r$ bands using data from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey. We created a detection map to identify the faint tail, and measured its length using cubic spline fitting. Additionally, we found 84 star-forming clumps along the tail and performed photometric analysis on the tail portion after applying a significance threshold on the signal-to-noise ratio. We have measured the projected length of the tail, which is $\sim$390 kpc. We propose that this tail arises from the interaction of the NGC 3785 with a gas-rich galaxy, which ends up as ultra-diffuse galaxy at the end of the tail. |
| title | A Tale of NGC 3785: The Formation of an Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy at the end of the Longest Tidal Tail |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18811 |