Ultra-deep Imaging: Structure of Disks and Haloes - Johan H. Knapen, Ignacio Trujillo

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ABSTRACT
1.INTRODUCTION
2.THE CHALLENGES OF ULTRA-DEEP IMAGING
2.1.Sky Brightness
2.2.Internal Reflections
2.3.Flat Fielding
2.3.1.Drift Scanning
2.4.Masking and Background Subtraction
2.5. Scattered Light
2.6.Galactic Cirrus

3.APPROACHES IN ULTRA-DEEP IMAGING

3.1.Survey Data

3.2.Small Telescopes

3.3.Large Telescopes

4.DISK AND STELLAR HALO PROPERTIES FROM ULTRA-DEEP IMAGING

4.1.Thick Disks

4.2.Truncations

4.3.Tidal Streams

4.4.Stellar Haloes

4.4.1.PSF Effects on Imaging the Outermost Regions of Galaxies

4.5.Satellites

5.CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS