A&A Supplement series, Vol. 128, March I 1998, 289-297

Received April 11; accepted July 21, 1997

Looking for fine structures in galaxies

M. Faúndez-Abans - M. de Oliveira-Abans

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(mfaundez@lna.br)
CNPq/Laboratório Nacional de Astrofısica, Caixa Postal 21, CEP: 37.500-000, Itajubá, MG, Brazil

Abstract:

In order to enhance fine structure in direct CCD images of galaxies, transform processing has been employed: working in the transform domain, transform functions have been created and simple high-  and low-pass filters have been applied to the images during the process. The results presented herein refer to a test sample of four galaxies:  ESO 143-G7,  HRG 54103, NGC 5193/5193A, and  NGC 5761. It is also discussed the use of a Fourier-hologram image as a transfer function.

keywords: galaxies: ESO 143-G7; HRG 54103, NGC 5193/5193 A; NGC 5761 -- techniques: image processing ; mathematical methods

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Observational approach
• 3. Image enhancement
• 4. Discussion
• References