1.65 μm (H-band) surface photometry of galaxies^*,**

III. observations of 558 galaxies with the TIRGO 1.5 m telescope

¹ Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, P.zza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, I-20126 Milano, Italy
² European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany
³ Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, Traverse du Siphon, F-13376 Marseille Cedex 12, France
⁴ MPI für Kernphysik, postfach 103980, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
⁵ Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, L.go E. Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze, Italy
⁶ C.A.I.S.M.I., L.go E. Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze, Italy

Send offprint request to: G. Gavazzi

Received: 5 October 1999
Accepted: 23 November 1999

Abstract


We present near-infrared H-band (1.65 μm) surface photometry of 558 galaxies in the Coma Supercluster and in the Virgo cluster. This data set, obtained with the Arcetri NICMOS3 camera ARNICA mounted on the Gornergrat Infrared Telescope, is aimed at complementing, with observations of mostly early-type objects, our NIR survey of spiral galaxies in these regions, presented in previous papers of this series. Magnitudes at the optical radius, total magnitudes, isophotal radii and light concentration indices are derived. We confirm the existence of a positive correlation between the near-infrared concentration index and the galaxy H-band luminosity.