A Tale of NGC 3785: The formation of an ultra-diffuse galaxy at the end of the longest tidal tail

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Watts, Chandan [1 ,2 ]
Barway, Sudhanshu [1 ]
Bait, Omkar [3 ]
Wadadekar, Yogesh [4 ]
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[1] Indian Inst Astrophys, 2 Block, Koramangala 560034, Bengaluru, India
[2] Pondicherry Univ, Pondicherry 605014, India
[3] SKA Observ, Lower Withington SK11 9FT, Macclesfield, England
[4] TIFR, Natl Ctr Radio Astrophys, Post Bag 3, Pune 411007, India
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欧洲研究理事会;
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galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: general; galaxies: interactions; galaxies: structure; DATA RELEASE; DWARF GALAXIES; MERGERS; MASS;
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10.1051/0004-6361/202452002
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
Aims. 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 (UDGs) at the end of the tail. Methods. We utilized the Gnuastro software to detect and analyze 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. Results. We have measured the projected length of the tail, which is similar to 390 kpc. We propose that this tail arises from the interaction of the NGC 3785 with a gas-rich galaxy, which ends up as a UDG at the end of the tail.
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