The HI Surface Density in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

Author(s):  
J. M. Van Der Hulst ◽  
E. D. Skillman ◽  
G. D. Bothun ◽  
T. R. Smith

2020 ◽  
Vol 496 (3) ◽  
pp. 3996-4016
Author(s):  
Andrea Kulier ◽  
Gaspar Galaz ◽  
Nelson D Padilla ◽  
James W Trayford

ABSTRACT We investigate the formation and properties of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) with M* > 109.5 M⊙ in the eagle hydrodynamical cosmological simulation. Galaxy surface brightness depends on a combination of stellar mass surface density and mass-to-light ratio (M/L), such that low surface brightness is strongly correlated with both galaxy angular momentum (low surface density) and low specific star formation rate (high M/L). This drives most of the other observed correlations between surface brightness and galaxy properties, such as the fact that most LSBGs have low metallicity. We find that LSBGs are more isolated than high-surface-brightness galaxies (HSBGs), in agreement with observations, but that this trend is driven entirely by the fact that LSBGs are unlikely to be close-in satellites. The majority of LSBGs are consistent with a formation scenario in which the galaxies with the highest angular momentum are those that formed most of their stars recently from a gas reservoir co-rotating with a high-spin dark matter halo. However, the most extended LSBG discs in EAGLE, which are comparable in size to observed giant LSBGs, are built up via mergers. These galaxies are found to inhabit dark matter haloes with a higher spin in their inner regions (<0.1r200c), even when excluding the effects of baryonic physics by considering matching haloes from a dark-matter-only simulation with identical initial conditions.



2019 ◽  
Vol 485 (1) ◽  
pp. 513-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
R H Sanders

ABSTRACT I consider the observed rotation curves of 12 gas-dominated low-surface-brightness galaxies – objects in which the mass of gas ranges between 2.2 and 27 times the mass of the stellar disc (mean = 9.4). This means that, in the usual decomposition of rotation curves into those resulting from various mass components, the mass-to-light ratio of the luminous stellar disc effectively vanishes as an additional adjustable parameter. It is seen that the observed rotation curves reflect the observed structure in gas surface density distribution often in detail. This fact is difficult to comprehend in the context of the dark matter paradigm where the dark halo completely dominates the gravitational potential in the low surface density systems; however it is an expected result in the context of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) in which the baryonic matter is the only component. With MOND the calculated rotation curves are effectively parameter-free predictions.



1999 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 1220-1229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taft E. Armandroff ◽  
George H. Jacoby ◽  
James E. Davies


1999 ◽  
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David V. Bowen ◽  
Francesca Matteucci


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Daisuke Kawata ◽  
Michael A. Beasley




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