PROBES. I. A Compendium of Deep Rotation Curves and Matched Multiband Photometry

Abstract

We present the Photometry and Rotation Curve Observations from Extragalactic Surveys (PROBES) compendium of extended rotation curves for 3163 late-type spirals, with matching homogeneous multiband photometry for 1677 of them. PROBES rotation curves originally extracted from H α long-slit spectra and aperture synthesis H i (21cm) velocity maps typically extend out to a median 2 R _e (or 1 R _23.5, _r ). Our uniform photometry takes advantage of GALEX, DESI-LIS, and WISE images and the software AutoProf to yield multiband azimuthally averaged surface brightness profiles that achieve depths greater than 25 mag arcsec ^−2 (FUV, NUV), 27 mag arcsec ^−2 ( g, r ), and 26 mag arcsec ^−2 ( z , W1, and W2). With its library of spatially resolved profiles and an extensive table of structural parameters, the versatile PROBES data set will benefit studies of galaxy structure and formation.

Keywords

• Disk galaxies
• Galaxy physics
• Galaxy photometry
• Galaxy kinematics
• Galaxy structure
• Catalogs