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Chain Galaxies are Edge-On Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

J. J. Dalcanton, S. A. Shectman

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9604157

Abstract

Deep HST WFPC2 images have revealed a population of very narrow blue galaxies which Cowie et al. (1996) have interpreted as being a new morphological class of intrinsically linear star forming galaxies at z=0.5-3. We show that the same population exists in large numbers at low redshifts (z=0.03) and are actually the edge-on manifestation of low surface brightness disk galaxies.

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