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Near-infrared (NIR) K' images of a sample of five low surface brightness disc galaxies (LSBGs) were combined with optical data, with the aim of constraining their star formation histories. Both red and blue LSBGs were imaged to enable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. F. Bell , R. G. Bower , R. S. de Jong , M. Hereld , B. J. Rauscher

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 , .

We study the ages of a large sample (1,802) of nearly face-on disk low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) by using the evolutionary population synthesis (EPS) model PEGASE with exponential decreasing star formation rate to fit their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Dong Gao , Yan-Chun Liang , Shun-Fang Liu , Guo-Hu Zhong , Xiao-Yan Chen , Yan-Bin Yang , Francois Hammer , Guo-Chao Yang , Li-Cai Deng , Jing-Yao Hu

We study the star formation histories (SFH) and stellar populations of 213 red and 226 blue nearly face-on low surface brightness disk galaxies (LSBGs), which are selected from the main galaxy sample of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 G. H. Zhong , Y. C. Liang , F. Hammer , X. Y. Chen , L. C. Deng , H. Flores

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 results of age and metallicity gradient analysis inferred from both optical and near-infrared surface photometry. The analysis is based on a sample of 36 nearby early-type galaxies, obtained from the Early Data Release of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hong Wu , Zhengyi Shao , H. J. Mo , Xiaoyang Xia , Zugan Deng

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 estimate the stellar mass for a sample of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) by fitting their multiband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) to the stellar population synthesis (SPS) model. The derived stellar masses (log M*/Msun)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-05 Du Wei , Cheng Cheng , Zheng Zheng , Wu Hong

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

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

(Abridged) We investigate optical and near-IR color gradients in a sample of 172 low-inclination galaxies spanning Hubble types S0--Irr. The colors are compared to stellar population synthesis models from which luminosity-weighted average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lauren A. MacArthur , Stephane Courteau , Eric Bell , Jon Holtzman

In this work, we investigate the stellar metallicities of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) and normal high surface brightness galaxies (HSBGs) in the IllustrisTNG100-1 simulation. LSBGs and HSBGs are classified as galaxies with mean…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-26 Lin Tang

We have used a large sample of low-inclination spiral galaxies with radially-resolved optical and near-infrared photometry to investigate trends in star formation history with radius as a function of galaxy structural parameters. A maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 Eric F. Bell , Roelof S. de Jong

In integrated-light, some color-color diagrams that use optical and near-infrared photometry show surprisingly orthogonal grids as age and metallicity are varied, and they are coming into common usage for estimating the average age and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-26 Hyun-chul Lee , Guy Worthey , Scott C. Trager , Sandra M. Faber

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 investigate the nature of the star formation law at low gas surface densities using a sample of 19 low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies with existing HI maps in the literature, UV imaging from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite,…

Using optical/near-IR broadband photometry together with Halpha emission line data, we attempt to constrain the star formation histories, ages, total stellar masses and stellar mass-to-light ratios for a sample of extremely blue low surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Zackrisson , N. Bergvall , G. Ostlin

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

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

How does the low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) form stars and assemble the stellar mass is one of the most important questions to understand the LSBG population. We select a sample of 381 HI bright LSBGs with both Far Ultraviolet…

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