Imaging and photometry of nearby dwarf galaxies^*,**

II. Southern dwarfs

¹ Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnij Arkhyz 369167, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Russia e-mail: lidia@sao.ru; ikar@luna.sao.ru
² Isaac Newton Institute of Chile, SAO Branch
³ Astronomical Institute, University of Basel, Venusstrasse 7, 4102 Binningen, Switzerland e-mail: grebel@astro.unibas.ch
⁴ Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, 475 North Charter Street, Madison, WI 53706-1582, USA e-mail: harbeck@astro.wisc.edu
⁵ Departamento de Física, Grupo de Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile e-mail: doug@kukita.cfm.udec.cl

Received: 13 February 2004
Accepted: 6 December 2004

Abstract

We carried out CCD photometry in the Johnson-Cousins B and R bands of 23 dwarf galaxies: SDIG, ESO 410-17, KK11, ESO 245-05, KKs3, KK27, KK38, KK40, IC 4662, KK244, KK246, KK247, KK248, KK249, KK253, KK255, KK256, KK257, KK258, KK259, UGCA 438, ESO 347-17, and UGCA 442. Both isolated galaxies and members of the Sculptor group and the NGC 1313 group were observed. The galaxy sample is characterized by a median distance of 9.3 Mpc, and median absolute magnitude of -14.8 mag. The central surface brightnesses are in the range from 22.2 to 24.4 mag arcsec^-2 in B.