Spectroscopy of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope

Details Spectroscopy of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Spectroscopy of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope

2002-10-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210104v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

31 pages, 12 figures, 7 tables. Uses emulateapj5.sty and onecolfloat5.sty, which are included. Accepted for publication in the

Scientific paper

10.1086/345383

We have obtained low resolution spectra of nineteen red and blue low surface brightness galaxies, using the Marcario Low Resolution Spectrograph on the 9.2m Hobby-Eberly Telescope. These galaxies form a very heterogeneous class, whose spectra qualitatively resemble those of high surface brightness galaxies covering the full range of spectra seen in galaxies of Hubble types from E to Irr. We use a combination of emission line (EW(Halpha), NII/Halpha) and absorption line (Mgb, Hbeta, ) based diagnostics to investigate the star-formation and chemical enrichment histories of these galaxies. These are diverse, with some galaxies having low metallicity and very young mean stellar ages, and other galaxies showing old, super-solar metallicity stellar populations. In contrast with some previous studies which found a strong trend of decreasing metallicity with decreasing central surface brightness, we find a population of galaxies with low surface brightness and near-solar metallicity. Correlations between several of the gas phase and stellar population age and metallicity indicators are used to place contraints on plausible evolutionary scenarios for LSB galaxies. The redshift range spanned by these galaxies is broad, with radial velocities from 3400 km/s to more than 65000 km/s. A subset of the sample galaxies have published HI redshifts and gas masses based on observations with the Arecibo 305m single-dish radio telescope, which place these galaxies far off of the mean Tully-Fisher relation. Our new optical redshifts do not agree with the published HI redshifts for these galaxies. Most of the discrepancies can be explained by beam confusion in the Arecibo observations, causing erroneous HI detections for some of the galaxies.

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