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New low surface brightness dwarf galaxies detected around nearby spirals

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We conduct a survey of low surface brightness (LSB) satellite galaxies around the Local Volume massive spirals using long exposures with small amateur telescopes. We identified 27 low and very low surface brightness objects around the galaxies NGC672, 891, 1156, 2683, 3344, 4258, 4618, 4631, and 5457 situated within 10 Mpc from us, and found nothing new around NGC2903, 3239, 4214, and 5585. Assuming that the dwarf candidates are the satellites of the neighboring luminous galaxies, their absolute magnitudes are in the range of −8.6 > M B > −13.3, their effective diameters are 0.4–4.7 kpc, and the average surface brightness is 26ṃ1/□″. The mean linear projected separation of the satellite candidates from the host galaxies is 73 kpc. Our spectroscopic observations of two LSB dwarfs with the Russian 6-meter telescope confirm their physical connection to the host galaxies NGC891 and NGC2683.

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    P. Riepe, T. Zilch, M. Blauensteiner, M. Elvov, P. Hochleitner, B. Hubl, G. Kerschhuber, S. Küppers, F. Neyer, R. Pölzl, P. Remmel, O. Schneider, R. Sparenberg, U. Trulson, G. Willems & H. Ziegler

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Original Russian Text© I.D. Karachentsev, P. Riepe, T. Zilch, M. Blauensteiner, M. Elvov, P. Hochleitner, B. Hubl, G. Kerschhuber, S. Küppers, F. Neyer, R. Pölzl, P. Remmel, O. Schneider, R. Sparenberg, U. Trulson, G. Willems, H. Ziegler, 2015, published in Astrofizicheskii Byulleten, 2015, Vol. 70, No. 4, pp. 403–415.

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Karachentsev, I.D., Riepe, P., Zilch, T. et al. New low surface brightness dwarf galaxies detected around nearby spirals. Astrophys. Bull. 70, 379–391 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S199034131504001X

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