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Low-surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) are defined as galaxies with central surface brightness levels fainter than the night sky, making them challenging to observe. A key open question is whether their faint appearance arises from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 D. Stoppacher , P. Tissera , Y. Rosas-Guevara , G. Galaz , J. Oñorbe

Classical low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies pose an important challenge to galaxy evolution models. While they are found to host large reservoirs of atomic hydrogen, they display low stellar and star-formation surface densities. Global…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-25 Hannah S. Christie , Pauline Barmby , Jason E. Young

To investigate the structure and composition of the dusty interstellar medium (ISM) of low surface brightness (LSB) disk galaxies, we have used multiwavelength photometry to construct spectral energy distributions for three low-mass,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 John M. MacLachlan , Lynn D. Matthews , Kenneth Wood , John S. Gallagher

We present models for the interstellar medium in disk galaxies. In particular, we investigate whether the ISM in low surface brightness galaxies can support a significant fraction of molecular gas given their low metallicity and surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris Mihos , Marco Spaans , Stacy McGaugh

Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR 7, we investigate the environment, morphology and stellar population of bulgeless low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies in a volume-limited sample with redshift ranging from 0.024 to 0.04 and $M_r$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-01 X. Shao , K. Disseau , Y. B. Yang , F. Hammer , M. Puech , M. Rodrigues , Y. C. Liang , L. C. Deng

Intermediate surface brightness (ISB) galaxies are less numerous than their counterparts at high and low surface brightness (HSB and LSB). Investigating ISB characteristics from a sample from the S4G survey, complete down to M_B=-16, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-02 Jenny G. Sorce , Peter Creasey , Noam I. Libeskind

The exact formation scenarios and evolutionary processes that led to the existence of the class of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBs) have not yet been understood completely. Since the environment of LSBs has been studied before only on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. D. Rosenbaum , E. Krusch , D. J. Bomans , R. -J. Dettmar

We use the Romulus25 cosmological simulation volume to study a large sample of late-type gas-rich galaxies with low central surface brightnesses known as classical low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies and compare them to a mass-matched…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-30 Anna C. Wright , Alyson M. Brooks , Michael Tremmel , Jason E. Young , Ferah Munshi , Tom Quinn

A recent study has claimed that the rotation curve shapes and mass densities of Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies are largely consistent with $\Lambda$CDM predictions, in contrast to a large body of observational work. I demonstrate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. J. G. de Blok

We use a model of galaxy disk formation to explore the metallicities, dust content, and neutral-gas mass density of damped Lyman-$\alpha$ (D\lya) absorbers. We find that the [Zn/H] abundance measurements of D\lya systems now available can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Raul Jimenez , David V. Bowen , Francesca Matteucci

Massive low surface brightness galaxies have disk central surface brightnesses at least one magnitude fainter than the night sky, but total magnitudes and masses that show they are among the largest galaxies known. Like all low surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. O'Neil

Although low surface brightness galaxies (LSBs) contribute a large fraction to the number density of galaxies, their properties are still poorly known. LSBs are often considered dust poor, based only on a few studies. We use, for the first…

Surface photometry at 3.6$\mu$m is presented for 61 low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies ($\mu_o < 19$ 3.6$\mu$m mag arcsecs$^{-2}$). The sample covers a range of luminosity from $-$11 to $-$22 in $M_{3.6}$ and size from 1 to 25 kpc. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 James Schombert , Stacy McGaugh

Low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies make up a significant fraction of the luminosity density of the local universe. Their low surface brightness suggests a different formation and evolution process compared to more-typical…

The origin of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies remains a key open question in galaxy formation, reflecting the balance internal mechanisms and environmental influence. Using MaNGA integral-field spectroscopy, we investigate whether LSB…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-13 Mengting Shen , Hassen M. Yesuf , Lei Hao , Chong Ge , Jun Yin , Junfeng Wang , Shiyin Shen

We present long-slit optical spectra of 12 edge-on low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) positioned along their major axes. After performing reddening corrections for the emission-line fluxes measured from the extracted integrated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Wei Du , Hong Wu , Yinan Zhu , Weikang Zheng , Alexei V. Filippenko

We present surface photometry results for a sample of eleven edge-on galaxies observed with the 6m telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory (Russia). The photometric scale length, scale height, and central surface brightness of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dmitry Bizyaev , Serafim Kajsin

Using deep near-IR and optical observations of the HDF-N from the HST NICMOS and WFPC2 and from the ground, we examine the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at 2.0 < z < 3.5. The UV-to-optical rest-frame…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Casey Papovich , Mark Dickinson , Henry C. Ferguson

We study the spectroscopic properties of a large sample of Low Surface Brightness galaxies (LSBGs) (with B-band central surface brightness mu0(B)>22 mag arcsec^(-2)) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 (SDSS-DR4) main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Y. C. Liang , G. H. Zhong , F. Hammer , X. Y. Chen , F. S. Liu , D. Gao , J. Y. Hu , L. C. Deng , B. Zhang

In this paper we present results of a pilot study to use imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to search for low-surface-brightness (LSB) galaxies. For our pilot study we use a test sample of 92 galaxies from the catalog of…