We present Surface Brightness Fluctuation distances of nine early-type dwarf galaxies and the S0 galaxy NGC 4150 in the Local Volume based on deep B - and R -band CCD images obtained with the 2.56 metre Nordic Optical Telescope .
Typically , six stellar fields at various galactocentric distances have been chosen for each galaxy as appropriately free of foreground stars and other contaminants , and Fourier analysed to determine the distances , which are found to lie in the range of 3 to 16 Mpc .
The SBF method is thus demonstrated to efficiently measure distances from the ground with mid-aperture telescopes for galaxies for which only the tip of the red giant branch method in combination with the Hubble Space Telescope has been available until now .
We obtained the following distance moduli : 28.11 \pm 0.15 mag ( or 4.2 \pm 0.3 Mpc ) for UGC 1703 , 27.61 \pm 0.17 mag ( or 3.3 \pm 0.3 Mpc ) for KDG 61 , 29.00 \pm 0.27 mag ( or 6.3 \pm 0.8 Mpc ) for UGCA 200 , 27.74 \pm 0.18 mag ( or 3.5 \pm 0.3 Mpc ) for UGC 5442 , 30.22 \pm 0.17 mag ( or 11.1 \pm 0.9 Mpc ) for UGC 5944 , 30.79 \pm 0.11 mag ( or 14.4 \pm 0.7 Mpc ) for NGC 4150 , 31.02 \pm 0.25 mag ( or 16.0 \pm 1.9 Mpc ) for BTS 128 , 29.27 \pm 0.16 mag ( or 7.1 \pm 0.6 Mpc ) for UGC 7639 , 30.19 \pm 0.23 mag ( or 10.9 \pm 1.2 Mpc ) for UGC 8799 with an alternative distance of 30.61 \pm 0.26 mag ( or 13.2 \pm 1.7 Mpc ) , and 29.60 \pm 0.20 mag ( or 8.3 \pm 0.8 Mpc ) for UGC 8882 .