1.65m (H-band) surface photometry of galaxies. II. Observations of 297 galaxies with the TIRGO 1.5 m telescope^*

¹ Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
² Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Brera 28, 20121 Milano, Italy
³ Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, L.go E.Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy
⁴ C.A.I.S.M.I., L.go E.Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy
⁵ MPI für Kernphysik, postfach 103980, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
⁶ DEMIRM, Observatoire de Paris, 61 Av. de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France
⁷ present address: Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, Traverse du Siphon, F-13376 Marseille Cedex 12, France

Send offprint request to: G. Gavazzi

Received: 2 January 1996
Accepted: 7 May 1996

Abstract

We present near-infrared H-band (1.65 μm) surface photometry of 297 galaxies (mostly) in the Coma Supercluster obtained with the Arcetri NICMOS3 camera, ARNICA, mounted on the Gornergrat Infrared Telescope. Magnitudes and diameters within the 21.5 mag arcsec^-2isophote, concentration indices, and total H magnitudes are derived. Combining these observations with those obtained similarly using the Calar Alto telescopes (Paper I) we find a strong positive correlation between the near-infrared concentration index and the galaxy H-band luminosity, and we analyze the consequent dependence of near-infrared growth-curves on H-band luminosity.