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We present Very Large Array ({\sc vla}) and Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope ({\sc wsrt}) 21-cm H{\sc i} observations of 19 late-type low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies. Our main findings are that these galaxies, as well as having…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 W. J. G. de Blok , S. S. McGaugh , J. M. van der Hulst

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 results of broad band {BVRI} observations of a sample of galaxies with a low surface brightness (LSB) disk and a bulge. These galaxies are well described as exponential disks and exponential bulges with no preferred value for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Beijersbergen , W. J. G. de Blok , J. M. van der Hulst

We study the structural properties of Low Surface Brightness galaxies (LSB) using a sample of 263 galaxies observed by the Green Bank Telescope (Schneider et al 1992). We perform 2D decompositions of these galaxies in the SDSS $g$, $r$ and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 Isha Pahwa , Kanak Saha

We select a volume-limited sample of galaxies derived from the SDSS-DR7 to study the environment of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies at different scales, as well as several physical properties of the dark matter haloes where the LSB…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 Luis Enrique Pérez-Montaño , Bernardo Cervantes Sodi

The surface brightness distribution (SBD) function describes the number density of galaxies as measured against their central surface brightness. Because detecting galaxies with low central surface brightnesses is both time-consuming and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. O'Neil , S. Andreon , J. -C. Cuillandre

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

From $\sim$ 5000 deg$^{2}$ of the combination of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) and Mayall $z$-band Legacy Survey (MzLS) which is also the northern sky region of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-01 Peng-Liang Du , Wei Du , Bing-Qing Zhang , Zhen-Ping Yi , Min He , Hong Wu

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

We present UBVI surface photometry of a sample of low surface brightness (LSB) disk galaxies. LSB disk galaxies are fairly well described as exponential disks with no preferred value for either scale length, central surface brightness, or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Stacy McGaugh , Greg Bothun

We present $UBVI$ and H$\alpha$ images of a sample of Low Surface Brightness (LSB) disk galaxies. These galaxies are generally late types, if they can be sensibly classified at all. However, they are not dwarfs, being intrinsically large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Stacy McGaugh , Jim Schombert , Greg Bothun

We measure the bar properties (length, strength, and corotation radius) of a sample of barred low surface brightness (LSBs) galaxies and compare to previous results for both LSBs and high surface brightness galaxy (HSBs) samples. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 Wesley Peters , Rachel Kuzio de Naray

We present a study of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) selected by fitting the images for all the galaxies in $\alpha$.40 SDSS DR7 sample with two kinds of single-component models and two kinds of two-component models (disk+bulge):…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-14 Bing-qing Zhang , Hong Wu , Wei Du , Pin-song Zhao , Min He , Feng-jie Lei

In twenty years, low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies have evolved from being an idiosyncratic notion to being one of the major baryonic repositories in the Universe. The story of their discovery and the characterization of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Greg Bothun , Chris Impey , Stacy McGaugh

We analyze a clean sample of 1,118 late-type, face-on galaxies without AGN contamination from the MaNGA survey. Their photometric structures are quantified via two-component (bulge+disk) decompositions on deep $g$-band images from the DESI…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-20 Mengting Shen , Jun Yin , Hassen M. Yesuf , Lei Hao , Jiafeng Lu , Lin Lin , Chong Ge , Junfeng Wang , Shiyin Shen , Yu Rong

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

Low surface brightness galaxies, those galaxies with a central surface brightness at least one magnitude fainter than the night sky, are often not included in discussions of extragalactic gas at z < 0.1. In this paper we review many of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. O'Neil

Low-surface-brightness galaxies(LSBGs) are defined as galaxies that are fainter than dark night sky and are important for studying our universe. Particularly, edge-on galaxies are useful for the study of rotational velocity and dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-23 Min He , Hong Wu , Wei Du , He-yang Liu , Feng-jie Lei , Pin-song Zhao , Bing-qing Zhang

We select a large volume-limited sample of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs, 2,021) to investigate their statistical properties and their differences from high surface brightness galaxies (HSBGs, 3,639) in details. The distributions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-14 G. H. Zhong , Y. C. Liang , F. S. Liu , F. Hammer , K. Disseau , L. C. Deng