Chemical abundances in low surface brightness galaxies: Implications for their evolution

Details Chemical abundances in low surface brightness galaxies: Implications for their evolution Chemical abundances in low surface brightness galaxies: Implications for their evolution

Jan 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993egte.conf...88m&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Ames Research Center, The Evolution of Galaxies and Their Environment p 88-89 (SEE N93-26706 10-90)

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Abundance, Brightness, Disk Galaxies, Galactic Structure, Metallicity, Chemical Evolution, Galactic Evolution, H Ii Regions

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Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies are an important but often neglected part of the galaxy content of the universe. Their importance stems both from the selection effects which cause them to be under-represented in galaxy catalogs, and from what they can tell us about the physical processes of galaxy evolution that has resulted in something other than the traditional Hubble sequence of spirals. An important constraint for any evolutionary model is the present day chemical abundances of LSB disks. Towards this end, spectra for a sample of 75 H 2 regions distributed in 20 LSB disks galaxies were obtained. Structurally, this sample is defined as having B(0) fainter than 23.0 mag arcsec(sup -2) and scale lengths that cluster either around 3 kpc or 10 kpc. In fact, structurally, these galaxies are very similar to the high surface brightness spirals which define the Hubble sequence. Thus, our sample galaxies are not dwarf galaxies but instead have masses comparable to or in excess of the Milky Way. The basic results from these observations are summarized.

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