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Future Prospects: Deep Imaging of Galaxy Outskirts using Telescopes Large and Small

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arxiv 1612.06415 v1 pith:UV3KX3F3 submitted 2016-12-19 astro-ph.GA

Future Prospects: Deep Imaging of Galaxy Outskirts using Telescopes Large and Small

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The Universe is almost totally unexplored at low surface brightness levels. In spite of great progress in the construction of large telescopes and improvements in the sensitivity of detectors, the limiting surface brightness of imaging observations has remained static for about forty years. Recent technical advances have at last begun to erode the barriers preventing progress. In this Chapter we describe the technical challenges to low surface brightness imaging, describe some solutions, and highlight some relevant observations that have been undertaken recently with both large and small telescopes. Our main focus will be on discoveries made with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array (Dragonfly), which is a new telescope concept designed to probe the Universe down to hitherto unprecedented low surface brightness levels. We conclude by arguing that these discoveries are probably only scratching the surface of interesting phenomena that are observable when the Universe is explored at low surface brightness levels.

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