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Using the Early Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) we investigated the clustering properties of Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies in comparison to normal, High Surface Brightness (HSB) galaxies. We selected LSB galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. D. Rosenbaum , D. J. Bomans

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 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 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 investigate the star formation history and chemical evolution of low surface brightness (LSB) disk galaxies by modelling their observed spectro-photometric and chemical properties using a galactic chemical and photometric evolution model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. B. van den Hoek , W. J. G. de Blok , J. M. van der Hulst , T. de Jong , .

The population of Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies is crucial for understanding the extremes of galaxy formation and evolution of the universe. As LSB galaxies are mostly rich in gas (HI), the alpha.40-SDSS DR7 sample is absolutely one…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Wei Du , Hong Wu , Man I Lam , Yinan Zhu , Fengjie Lei , Zhimin Zhou

Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 4 (DR 4), we investigate the spatial distribution of low and high surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs and HSBGs, respectively). In particular, we focus our attention on the influence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gaspar Galaz , Rodrigo Herrera-Camus , Diego Garcia-Lambas , Nelson Padilla

We study the influence of the environment on the evolution of galaxies by investigating the luminosity function (LF) of galaxies of different morphological types and colours at different environmental density levels. We construct the LFs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 E. Tempel , E. Saar , L. J. Liivamägi , A. Tamm , J. Einasto , M. Einasto , V. Müller

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 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

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

Combining the catalogue of galaxy morphologies in the COSMOS field and the sample of H$\alpha$ emitters at redshifts $z=0.4$ and $z=0.84$ of the HiZELS survey, we selected $\sim$ 220 star-forming bulgeless systems (S\'ersic index $n \leq…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 M. Grossi , C. A. C. Fernandes , D. Sobral , J. Afonso , E. Telles , L. Bizzocchi , A. Paulino-Afonso , I. Matute

A series of population models are designed to explore the star formation history of gas-rich, low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies. LSB galaxies are unique in having properties of very blue colors, low H$\alpha$ emission and high gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 James Schombert , Stacy McGaugh

We investigate the dependence of physical properties of galaxies brighter than M_r=-18.0 in the SDSS on environment, as measured by local density using an adaptive smoothing kernel. We find that variations of galaxy properties with…

The radial profiles of the Hb, Mg, and Fe line-strength indices are presented for a sample of eight spiral galaxies with a low surface-brightness stellar disc and a bulge. The correlations between the central values of the line-strength…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 L. Morelli , E. M. Corsini , A. Pizzella , E. Dalla Bontà , L. Coccato , J. Méndez-Abreu , M. Cesetti

We investigate the environmental dependence of galaxy population properties in a complete volume-limited sample of 91566 galaxies in the redshift range 0.05 <= z <= 0.095 and with M_r <= -20.0, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Sorrentino , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , A. Rifatto

We investigate in detail the hypothesis that low surface brightness galaxies (LSB) differ from ordinary galaxies simply because they form in halos with large spin parameters. We compute star formation rates using the Schmidt law, assuming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Raul Jimenez , Paolo Padoan , Francesca Matteucci , Alan Heavens

We present N-body simulations of Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies and their Interstellar Medium to investigate the cause for their low star formation rates (SFR).Due to their massive halos, stellar disks of LSB galaxies are very stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeroen P. E. Gerritsen , W. J. G. de Blok

Understanding the formation and evolution of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) is critical for explaining their wide-ranging properties. However, studies of LSBGs in deep photometric surveys are often hindered by a lack of distance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 Daniel J. Prole , Remco F. J. van der Burg , Michael Hilker , Lee R. Spitler

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
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