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Structure and star formation in disk galaxies I. Sample selection and near infrared imaging

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 3 0 3 6 1 3 v 2 2 8 M a r 2 0 0 3 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 000, 1–9 (2003) Printed 2 February 2008 (MN LATEX style file v1.4) Structure and star formation in disk galaxies I. Sample selection and near infrared imaging J. H. Knapen1,2, R. S. de Jong3, S. Stedman1 and D. M. Bramich4 1University of Hertfordshire, Department of Physical Sciences, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB 2Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Apartado 321, E-38700 Santa Cruz de La Palma, Spain 3Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA 4School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, Scotland KY16 9SS Accepted March 2003. Received ; in original form ABSTRACT We present near-infrared imaging of a sample of 57 relatively large, Northern spiral galaxies with low inclination. After describing the selection criteria and some of the basic properties of the sample, we give a detailed description of the data collection and reduction procedures. The Ks λ = 2.2μm images cover most of the disk for all galaxies, with a field of view of at least 4.2 arcmin. The spatial resolution is better than an arcsec for most images. We fit bulge and exponential disk components to radial profiles of the light distribution. We then derive the basic parameters of these components, as well as the bulge/disk ratio, and explore correlations of these parameters with several galaxy parameters. Key words: galaxies: spiral – galaxies: structure – infrared: galaxies 1 INTRODUCTION Near-infrared (NIR) imaging of galaxies is a better tracer of the underlying stellar structure than optical imaging, for two reasons. Firstly, the effects of extinction by dust in the galaxy are much reduced (an order of magnitude from V to K), and secondly, the NIR emission is a better tracer of the older stellar populations, which contain most of the stellar mass. The combined effect of these two factors is that NIR emission is a more accurate tracer of the mass in galaxies.

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