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  • A Study of Two Diffuse Dwar...
    Greco, Johnny P.; Goulding, Andy D.; Greene, Jenny E.; Strauss, Michael A.; Huang, Song; Kim, Ji Hoon; Komiyama, Yutaka

    Astrophysical journal/˜The œAstrophysical journal, 10/2018, Volume: 866, Issue: 2
    Journal Article

    We present optical long-slit spectroscopy and far-ultraviolet to mid-infrared spectral energy distribution fitting of two diffuse dwarf galaxies, LSBG-285 and LSBG-750, which were recently discovered by the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP). We measure redshifts using H line emission and find that these galaxies are at comoving distances of 25 and 41 Mpc, respectively, after correcting for the local velocity field. They have effective radii of reff = 1.2 and 1.8 kpc and stellar masses of M (2-3) × 107 M . There are no massive galaxies ( ) within a comoving separation of at least 1.5 Mpc from LSBG-285 and 2 Mpc from LSBG-750. These sources are similar in size and surface brightness to ultradiffuse galaxies, except they are isolated, star-forming objects that were optically selected in an environmentally blind survey. Both galaxies likely have low stellar metallicities Z /Z < −1.0 and are consistent with the stellar mass-metallicity relation for dwarf galaxies. We set an upper limit on LSBG-750's rotational velocity of ∼50 km s−1, which is comparable to dwarf galaxies of similar stellar mass with estimated halo masses <1011 M . We find tentative evidence that the gas-phase metallicities in both of these diffuse systems are high for their stellar mass, though a statistically complete, optically selected galaxy sample at very low surface brightness will be necessary to place these results into context with the higher surface brightness galaxy population.