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Zangetsu: A Candidate of Isolated, Quiescent, and Backsplash Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy in the COSMOS Field

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Pith's one-line read A candidate ultra-diffuse galaxy, Zangetsu, found in HSC COSMOS images is unusually elongated, quiescent, apparently isolated, and an extreme size outlier.

arxiv 2505.14073 v3 pith:ADSI55NH submitted 2025-05-20 astro-ph.GA

Leyao Wei , Song Huang , Jiaxuan Li , Zechang Sun , Mingyu Li , Jiaxin Tang This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

Ultra-diffuse galaxies are very faint, spread-out galaxies with very few stars per area. Most known examples live in clusters or groups, and isolated ones tend to be blue and still forming stars. Zangetsu, found by visual inspection in deep Subaru images, is different: it is red and old-looking, very elongated, and no large galaxy nearby seems able to explain it. The authors removed scattered light from a nearby bright star, fitted smooth galaxy models to measure its shape, and used surface brightness fluctuations to estimate that it sits farther away than about 25 Mpc, but they could not measure a precise distance. Because the distance is unknown, the true physical size is uncertain, yet over the allowed distance range Zangetsu remains an outlier among known ultra-diffuse galaxies, either very large or extremely diffuse, or both. The team searched spectroscopic catalogs for a possible host galaxy and found no convincing one, supporting the idea that Zangetsu is isolated. The leading suggested explanation is the backsplash scenario: a dwarf galaxy that once fell into a larger dark matter halo, had its gas stripped, and was later ejected, leaving an old, puffy, stretched remnant. The result is a candidate, not a confirmed galaxy; a spectroscopic redshift and better distance measurement are needed. If confirmed, Zangetsu would test formation models and reveal that current surveys may be missing the most elongated faint galaxies.
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Core claim

Zangetsu is a likely isolated, quiescent, and distorted ultra-diffuse galaxy candidate: with mu0,g = 26.60 mag arcsec^-2, Sersic index n = 0.40, axis ratio b/a ~ 0.25, g-i = 0.96, and effective radius Re ~ 10.44 arcsec, it is an extreme outlier on the luminosity-size relation regardless of its distance, and no conventional internal or external UDG formation mechanism easily explains all of its properties, with backsplash a plausible origin.

Load-bearing premise

The assumption that Zangetsu's measured structural parameters are not dominated by systematics in the empirical removal of the nearby bright star's scattered light and the local sky background model. The paper states after Table 1 that systematic uncertainties may be of the same order as, or larger than, the quoted statistical uncertainties, and Appendix B shows the extracted profile depends on these correction steps. If the corrections create the shallow n=0.40 and b/a=0.25 values, the central claims of uniqueness and extreme diffuseness would not survive.

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Assumptions & free parameters 5 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new physical entities, forces, or particles. Its central claims rest on fitted photometric parameters, external calibrations, assumed redshift ranges, and catalog-based host exclusion. The most important unverified inputs are the empirical star-scattered-light subtraction, the SBF distance lower limits from non-detections, and the assumption that no unseen host exists.

free parameters (5)
  • Sersic index n = 0.40 ± 0.01
    Fitted jointly to g, r, i images with AstroPhot; the claim of an unusually shallow profile depends on this value, with only statistical errors quoted.
  • Axis ratio b/a = 0.25 ± 0.01
    Fitted in the same 2D model; drives the claim that Zangetsu is uniquely elongated among known UDGs.
  • Effective radius Re = 10.44 ± 0.06 arcsec
    Fitted to the HSC images; the luminosity-size outlier claim depends on this angular size combined with the assumed distance range.
  • SBF masking and power-spectrum settings = M_F814W = -4.8 mag, f_mask ~ 0.3-0.5, varying k ranges; 100 Monte Carlo draws
    Chosen to measure SBF distance lower limits; the settings affect the quoted lower limits and their uncertainties.
  • Assumed redshift for SED fitting and physical scaling = z = 0.1 for the main SED fit, with z = 0.006 as a low-distance example
    The photometric redshifts are unreliable, so stellar mass, physical size, and the SED fit depend on an assumed redshift; the quiescent conclusion is robust, but mass and size are not.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The SBF-color calibrations of Blakeslee et al. (2010) and Carlsten et al. (2019) apply to this low-surface-brightness dwarf given only g-i color information.
    Used in Section 4.1 to convert SBF signals to distance lower limits; the color transformation is derived from MIST simple stellar population models.
  • domain assumption A single Sersic plus plane-sky model adequately represents Zangetsu's light distribution, with residual asymmetry treated as second order.
    Used in Section 3.2 and Appendix B; the low n and b/a values are outputs of this model choice.
  • domain assumption The adopted distance range 0.006 < z < 0.1 is reasonable, and the COSMOS2020 photometric redshifts are unreliable for this object.
    Used in Section 4.2 and Appendix D to estimate physical sizes, masses, and the SED; if Zangetsu is at z = 0.124 or higher, physical sizes change drastically.
  • domain assumption The Rodriguez-Puebla et al. (2017) stellar-to-halo mass relation and the available DESI DR1 and group catalogs are sufficient to conclude that no convincing host exists within 1.2 Rvir.
    Used in Section 4.3 to claim isolation; the paper adopts upper-limit halo masses, but the conclusion depends on external relations and catalog completeness.
  • domain assumption Zangetsu is not Galactic cirrus, a stellar artifact, or light from the nearby saturated star.
    Argued in Section 2.1 using morphology, Gaia parallax of the bright star, TESS photometry, colors, and the absence of similar cirrus features.

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: Zangetsu: A Candidate of Isolated, Quiescent, and Backsplash Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy in the COSMOS Field},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/ADSI55NH}},
  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2505.14073}
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abstract

Deep imaging surveys have changed our view of the low surface brightness (LSB) Universe. The ``renaissance'' of the LSB galaxy population, as a prime example of this recent development, continues to challenge our understanding of galaxy formation. Here, we report the serendipitous discovery of Zangetsu, an isolated, quiescent, and distorted ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidate in the COSMOS field, using images from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP). Zangetsu exhibits an extremely low central surface brightness ($\mathrm{\mu_{0,g}}=26.60\pm0.01$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$), a very shallow inner surface brightness profile ($\mathrm{n}_{\rm Sersic}=0.40\pm0.01$), and a large angular size ($\mathrm{R_e}\approx 10.44$ arcsec). Surprisingly, Zangetsu also has a quiescent stellar population ($\mathrm{g-i}=0.96$), an unusually elongated shape ($\mathrm{b/a}\sim 0.25$), and mild morphological asymmetry, making it a rare case among known UDGs. Surface brightness fluctuation analysis of HSC and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images only provides a distance lower limit of $D>25.4$ Mpc (thus $\mathrm{R_e}>1.38$ kpc). However, Zangetsu remains an extreme outlier in the luminosity-size relation of known LSB galaxies, suggesting that it could be an exceptionally large and/or diffuse system. Classic internal or external UDG formation mechanisms alone struggle to explain such a system. A backsplash origin may account for its isolation and quiescent nature. This finding also raises the possibility that current works may overlook similarly extreme, elongated systems that could further our understanding of the LSB Universe.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Left: Composite gri 3-color picture of Zangetsu (Lupton et al. 2004) from the HSC-SSP UltraDeep survey. Upper right: UltraVISTA near-infrared Ks-band image. Bottom right: HST ACS/F814W image. Zangetsu is detected in all-optical and near-infrared images of the COSMOS field. It shows a very elongated and smooth surface brightness profile, a red optical color, and a slightly distorted morphology. All cutouts here are 1… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Left panels: Surface brightness profile and color profile of Zangetsu. The red dashed line in the top-left panel is the i-band Sérsic fitting result. Multiples of the effective radius are marked by vertical dashed lines. The grey shaded region indicates the 5σ surface brightness limit from g band where the data points are not reliable because of low S/N. Right panels: The i-band image of the galaxy after subtracting… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Left panel: To place Zangetsu in a broader context, we compare Zangetsu (red star) with UDGs from the SMUDGes survey (Zaritsky et al. 2023, blue hexagonal bins) and UDGs and UPGs from Li+23 (Li et al. 2023, orange dots) on the Sérsic index n vs b/a 2-D plane. The black dashed lines are the selection cut from the SMUDGes catalog, respectively n < 2 and b/a ≤ 0.37. The red dashed line marks the corresponding positions… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Distance lower limits from surface brightness fluctuation measurements using HST F814W (top panels) and HSC i-band (bottom panels) images. The left panels show the images and the masks overlaid in yellow. We only include relatively high surface brightness regions (< 1.…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Luminosity MV and half-light radius rh parameter space for UDGs sample from various surveys (Zaritsky et al. 2023, Leisman et al. 2017, Shen et al. 2024) and Zangetsu. The horizontal gray dash-dotted line indicates the UDG size criterion from van Dokkum et al. (2015). …
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Environment of Zangetsu and potential host galaxies. We show the position of nearby galaxies or groups that meet our criteria for potential hosts (see Sec. 4.3 for details). Gray circles indicate the virial radius for individual galaxies and R200c for the galaxy group.…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Cutouts of Zangetsu in selected filter band from ultraviolet to mid-infrared, including GALEX, CFHT, HSC, HST, UltraVISTA, and Spitzer detections. APPENDIX A. THE MULTI-BAND IMAGES OF ZANGETSU In [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_7.png]
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: We illustrate the scattered light subtraction around the bright star in gri bands. The left panels present the original images centered on the star with a size of 168′′ ×168′′. The middle panels show the 2-D model reconstructed from the 1-D isophote fitting. The small …
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Here we illustrate the impacts of different imaging systematics on the surface brightness profile of Zangetsu. These profiles also reflect the result of each correction step adopted by this work. We highlight the 5-σ surface brightness limits in each stage using dot-da…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: The posterior distribution from the Sérsic + plane sky model of Zangetsu. C. POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTION OF THE Sérsic MODEL [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_10.png]
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: displays Zangetsu’s SED and the best-fit model from Mephisto. On the right side of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_11.png]

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