Dwarf galaxy candidates found on the SERC EJ sky survey

¹ Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, N. Arkhyz, KChR, 369167, Russia
² Astronomical Observatory of Kiev University 04053, Observatorna 3, Kiev, Ukraine
³ Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A.
⁴ Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195-1580, U.S.A.
⁵ Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Königstuhl 17, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany

Received: 19 May 2000
Accepted: 17 June 2000

Abstract

We inspected a sky region with declination range of [ 0°, -18°] based on the SERC EJ plate copies. As a result a list of 50 nearby dwarf galaxy candidates with angular diameters is presented. Most of the galaxies have low and very low surface brightness. More than 60% of the objects are detected for the first time.