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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

Thanks to new advances in astronomical imaging, we can now routinely explore disk galaxy profiles about two magnitudes deeper than the data available 20 years ago. In this regard, it is an opportune time to reevaluate the past…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Samane Raji , Ignacio Trujillo , Fernando Buitrago , Giulia Golini , Ignacio Ruiz Cejudo

Giant low surface brightness galaxies (gLSBs) are galaxies with extremely extended, faint, optical disks over 50 kpc in radius and have high total masses which can reach 10^12 solar masses. The existence of such galaxies is problematic for…

We consider a thickness of stellar disks of late-type galaxies by analyzing the R and K_s band photometric profiles for two independent samples of edge-on galaxies. The main goal is to verify a hypotesis that a thickness of old stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Zasov , D. V. Bizyaev , D. I. Makarov , N. V. Tyurina

Low Surface-Brightness (LSB) galaxies are severely underrepresented in surveys used to define the local luminosity function (LF), but could it in principle be detected in deep surveys. To explore the possible contribution of such objects to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Henry C. Ferguson , Stacy S. McGaugh

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

We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements using a sample of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) drawn from the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (Y3) data as lenses. LSBGs are diffuse galaxies with a surface brightness dimmer than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-05 N. Chicoine , J. Prat , G. Zacharegkas , C. Chang , D. Tanoglidis , A. Drlica-Wagner , D. Anbajagane , S. Adhikari , A. Amon , R. H. Wechsler , A. Alarcon , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , A. Choi , J. Cordero , C. Davis , J. DeRose , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferté , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , K. Herner , M. Jarvis , P. -F. Leget , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , B. Yanny , B. Yin , J. Zuntz , M. Aguena , O. Alves , D. Bacon , D. Brooks , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , S. Desai , J. De Vicente , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , S. Lee , C. Lidman , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Muir , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , A. R. Walker , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. To , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , N. Weaverdyck , P. Wiseman

We have analyzed the radial scales, central surface brightnesses, and colors of 404 disks of various types of galaxies. The central surface brightness mu0 and linear disk scale length h vary smoothly along the Hubble sequence of galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-04 Alexander S. Gusev , Svetlana A. Guslyakova , Maria S. Khramtsova

We report the detection of a thick disk in the edge-on, low surface brightness (LSB), late-type spiral ESO 342-G017, based on ultra-deep images in the V and R bands obtained with the VLT Test Camera during Science Verification on UT1. All…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mark J. Neeser , Penny D. Sackett , Guido De Marchi , Francesco Paresce

We present a near-infrared (NIR) imaging study of barred low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies using the TIFR near-infrared Spectrometer and Imager (TIRSPEC). LSB galaxies are dark matter dominated, late type spirals that have low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-08 M. Honey , M. Das , J. P. Ninan , M. Purvankara

I summarize some results from the recent CO survey of late-type, low surface brightness (LSB) spiral galaxies by Matthews et al. (2005). We have now detected CO emission from six late-type, LSB spirals, demonstrating that despite their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. D. Matthews

To enlarge the sample of known low-surface brightness (LSB) galaxies and to try to provide clues about their nature, we report the detection of eight of this type of objects ($\mu_{{eff}, g'} \simeq 27$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$) towards the group…

The formation of low surface brightness galaxies is an unavoidable prediction of any hierarchical clustering scenario. In these models, low surface brightness galaxies form at late times from small initial overdensities, and make up most of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. Dalcanton , D. N. Spergel , F J Summers

Hubble Space Telescope allows us to study the central surface brightness profiles for globular clusters at unprecedented detail. We have mined the HST archives to obtain 38 WFPC2 images of galactic globular clusters with adequate exposure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Noyola , K. Gebhardt

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

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 study the faint stellar halo of isolated central galaxies, by stacking galaxy images in the HSC survey and accounting for the residual sky background sampled with random points. The surface brightness profiles in HSC $r$-band are…

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

We present preliminary results from spectroscopic observations of a sample of 11 low surface brightness galaxies (LSB). We measured the stellar and gaseous kinematics along their major and minor axes. Such information will allow us to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Pizzella , E. M. Corsini , F. Bertola , L. Coccato , J. Magorrian , M. Sarzi , J. G. Funes S. J.

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