Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-06-19
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, including 4 figures. Published in "Star, Gas, & Dust in Galaxies: Exploring the Links" (ASP Conference Series). Also
Scientific paper
Recent surveys have discovered hundreds of low surface brightness galaxies in the local (z < 0.1) Universe. Plots of the surface brightness distribution (the space density of galaxies plotted against central surface brightness) show a flat distribution from the bright-end cutoff of 21.65 through the current observational limit of 25.0 B mag arcsec^{-2}. As no trend is seen to indicate the size or mass of galaxies decreases with decreasing central surface brightness, it is likely that a significant percentage of the baryon content in the universe is contained in these diffuse systems. In this paper I briefly review the known properties of low surface brightness galaxies, and describe some current theories on the baryonic mass fraction of low surface brightness systems and their consequences.
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