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In recent years it has become apparent that there exist substantial numbers of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies (LSBGs) in clusters. These were not seen in earlier surveys because of technical limitations and severe selection biases. A group of us at Cardiff (Phillipps, Disney, Davies, Evans) and the APM group at Cambridge (Kibblewhite, Cawson, Irwin) have therefore attempted to make the first objective (machine selected) survey for LSBGs by using the APM machine to scan UKST plates of cluster areas, primarily the Fornax Cluster area. As mentioned elsewhere in these proceedings, the advantage of using measuring machine data is not that selection effects can be avoided, but that they can be quantified. This point is particularly important for LSBG samples.
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Davies, J.I., Phillipps, S., Cawson, M.G.M., Disney, M.J., Kibblewhite, E.J., 1988. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 232, 289.
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Phillipps, S. (1992). Surveys for Low Surface Brightness Galaxies. In: MacGillivray, H.T., Thomson, E.B. (eds) Digitised Optical Sky Surveys. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 174. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2472-0_39
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