g and r wide-field imaging of NGC 1266 taken with the MEGACAM instrument on the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea as part of the MATLAS survey (Duc et al. 2011; Paudel et al. 2013). The image shown has a limiting surface brightness of 28.5 mag arcsec−2. Field-of-view is 5farcm4 × 5farcm4 (or 47 × 47 kpc2). There are possibly faint tidal streams seen below and to the left of the galaxy due to material from a disrupted dwarf, but it is clear from these data that there is no sign of a major interaction in the past Gyr. The large-scale feature seen to the south is likely part of a large Galactic cirrus complex. Spectroscopy of the spiral galaxy to the east shows it to be in projection in the background (J. Silverman 2012, private communication).
(Alatelo et al., 2014)