Beygu, B.Peletier, R.F.Van der Hulst, J.M.Jarrett, T.H.Kreckel, K.2017-04-102017-04-102017Beygu, B. et al. 2017. The void galaxy survey: photometry, structure and identity of void galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(1):666-679. [https://academic.oup.com/mnras]0035-87111365-2966 (Online)http://hdl.handle.net/10394/21293https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2362https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-pdf/464/1/666/8331749/stw2362.pdfWe analyse photometry from deep B-band images of 59 void galaxies in the Void Galaxy Survey (VGS), together with their near-infrared 3.6 μm and 4.5 μm Spitzer photometry. The VGS galaxies constitute a sample of void galaxies that were selected by a geometric-topological procedure from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 data release, and which populate the deep interior of voids. Our void galaxies span a range of absolute B-magnitude from MB = −15.5 to −20, while at the 3.6 μm band their magnitudes range from M3.6 = −18 to −24. Their B−[3.6] colour and structural parameters indicate these are star-forming galaxies. A good reflection of the old stellar population, the near-infrared band photometry also provide a robust estimate of the stellar mass, which for the VGS galaxies we confirm to be smaller than 3 × 1010 M⊙. In terms of the structural parameters and morphology, our findings align with other studies in that our VGS galaxy sample consists mostly of small late-type galaxies. Most of them are similar to Sd-Sm galaxies, although a few are irregularly shaped galaxies. The sample even includes two early-type galaxies, one of which is an AGN. Their Sérsic indices are nearly all smaller than n = 2 in both bands and they also have small half-light radii. In all, we conclude that the principal impact of the void environment on the galaxies populating them mostly concerns their low stellar mass and small sizeenGalaxies: formationGalaxies: photometryGalaxies: structureCosmology: observationsLarge-scale structure of UniverseArticle