We obtained images in the near-infrared H bandpass for
an optically selected (
)
sample of 170 nearby (z<0.02) galaxies.
As in previous papers we derive H magnitudes at the optical radius, total H magnitudes, isophotal
radii at the 20.5 mag arcsec-2 isophote and light concentration index C31.
As mentioned in the Introduction, the observations presented in this
paper do not cover by themselves a complete sample, but they represent the last step
of our extensive NIR survey.
Papers I, II, III, IV of this series and B97 contain all the data gathered so far.
A comprehensive analysis of the NIR properties
of galaxies will be the subject of forthcoming papers of this series.
Paper V will report on
the profile decomposition.
Acknowledgements
We wish to thank the Calar Alto Time Allocation Commettee for devoting three nights at the 2.2 m telescope for a project leaded by astronomers not belonging to German Institutes. We thank the MAGIC team at MPI für Astronomie for their skillful operational support and for several helpful discussions about data reduction.
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