Photometry of Dorado Group Dwarf Galaxies

The low surface brightness galaxies were chosen based on their sizes and magnitudes at the limiting isophote of 26V{mu}. The selected galaxies have magnitudes brighter than V~20 (MV~-11 for an assumed distance to the group of 17.2 Mpc), with central surface brightnesses {mu}_0_>22.5 Vmag.arcsec^-2^, scale lengths h>2", and diameters >=14" at the limiting isophote.

Using these criteria, we identified 69 dwarf galaxy candidates. Four of them are large very low surface brightness galaxies that were detected on a smoothed image, after masking high surface brightness objects. Monte Carlo simulations performed to estimate completeness, photometric uncertainties and to evaluate our ability to detect extended low surface brightness galaxies show that the completeness fraction is, on average, >80% for dwarf galaxies with -17<MV<-10.5 and 22.5<{mu}_0_<25.5 Vmag.arcsec^-2^, for the range of sizes considered by us (D>=14").