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Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies form a large population of disc galaxies that extend the Hubble sequence towards extreme late-types. They are only slowly evolving, and still in an early evolutionary state. The Tully-Fisher relation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. J. G. de Blok , Stacy McGaugh

Using the IRAM 30-m telescope, we have obtained 12CO J=1-0 and 2-1 spectral line observations toward the nuclear regions of 15 edge-on, low surface brightness (LSB) spiral galaxies. Our sample comprises extreme late-type LSB spirals with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lynn D. Matthews , Yu Gao , Juan M. Uson , Francoise Combes

We present the results of a search for low surface brightness galaxies (hereafter LSBs) in the Coma cluster. Bernstein et al. report on deep CCD observations in R of a 7.5 by 7.5 arcminute region in the core of the Coma cluster, and we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. P. Ulmer , G. M. Bernstein , D. R. Martin , R. C. Nichol , J. L. Pendleton , J. A. Tyson

A description is given of the samples of Low Surface Brightness galaxies (LSBs) used for comparison with models of their chemical and spectro-photometric evolution (Boissier et al., this Volume). These samples show the large variation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Monnier Ragaigne , W. van Driel , C. Balkowski , S. Boissier , N. Prantzos

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 2009-06-23 K. O'Neil

The severity of the mass discrepancy in spiral galaxies is strongly correlated with the central surface brightness of the disk. Progressively lower surface brightness galaxies have ever larger mass discrepancies. No other parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Stacy McGaugh , Erwin de Blok

We investigate the formation and properties of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) with $M_{*} > 10^{9.5} \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ in the EAGLE hydrodynamical cosmological simulation. Galaxy surface brightness depends on a combination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-04 Andrea Kulier , Gaspar Galaz , Nelson D. Padilla , James W. Trayford

We present mass models of a sample of 19 low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies and compare the properties of their constituent mass components with those of a sample of high surface brightness (HSB) galaxies.We find that LSB galaxies are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 W. J. G. de Blok , Stacy S. McGaugh

Using the DIANOGA hydrodynamical zoom-in simulation set of galaxy clusters, we analyze the dynamics traced by stars belonging to the Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and their surrounding diffuse component, forming the intracluster light…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-06 I. Marini , S. Borgani , A. Saro , G. L. Granato , C. Ragone-Figueroa , B. Sartoris , K. Dolag , G. Murante , A. Ragagnin , Y. Wang

We measure the intrinsic relation between velocity dispersion ($\sigma$) and luminosity ($L$) for massive, luminous red galaxies (LRGs) at redshift $z \sim 0.55$. We achieve unprecedented precision by using a sample of 600,000 galaxies with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Yiping Shu , Adam S. Bolton , Joel R. Brownstein , Benjamin J. Weiner

We present results of surface photometry for eleven edge-on galaxies observed with the 6-m telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The photometric scale length, the scale height, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Bizyaev , Serafim Kajsin

Context. In spite of the numerous studies of low-luminosity galaxies in different environments, there is still no consensus about their formation scenario. In particular, a large number of galaxies displaying extremely low-surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-30 A. V. Smith Castelli , F. R. Faifer , C. G. Escudero

With the aim of assessing if low surface brightness galaxies host stellar bars, and study the dependence of the occurrence of bars as a function of surface brightness, we use the Galaxy Zoo 2 dataset to construct a large volume-limited…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-04 Bernardo Cervantes Sodi , Osbaldo Sánchez García

We used the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain high resolution i-band images of the centers of 23 single galaxies, which were selected because they have SDSS velocity dispersions larger than 350 km/s.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. B. Hyde , M. Bernardi , R. K. Sheth , R. C. Nichol

We present the rotation velocities V and velocity dispersions sigma along the principal axes of seven elliptical galaxies less luminous than M_B= -19.5. These kinematics extend beyond the half-light radii for all systems in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hans-Walter Rix , Marcella Carollo , Ken Freeman

We analyze the available observational data on the radial distribution of gas and young stellar populations in the disks of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies and in the outer regions or the extended disks of normal brightness (HSB)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-25 Anatoly Zasov , Natalia Zaitseva , Anna Saburova

Velocity dispersion $\sigma$, radius $R$ and luminosity $L$ of elliptical galaxies are known to be related, leaving only two degrees of freedom and defining the so-called ``fundamental plane". In this {\em Letter} we present observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 R. Schaeffer , S. Maurogordato , A. Cappi , F. Bernardeau

We demonstrate that individual elliptical galaxies and clusters of galaxies form a continuous X-ray luminosity---velocity dispersion (LX-sigma) relation. Our samples of 280 clusters and 57 galaxies have LX ~ sigma^4.4 and LX ~ sigma^10,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Andisheh Mahdavi , Margaret J. Geller

Using the SMUDGes and SDSS catalogs, and our own reprocessing of the Legacy Surveys imaging, we investigate the properties of nuclear star clusters (NSCs) in galaxies having central surface brightnesses as low as 27 mag arcsec$^{-2}$. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-03 Donghyeon J. Khim , Dennis Zaritsky , Mika Lambert , Richard Donnerstein

High-quality observations of dark matter-dominated low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies indicate that, in contrast to the triaxial, centrally-concentrated cuspy halos formed in collisionless simulations of halo assembly, these galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Rachel Kuzio de Naray , Kristine Spekkens