Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-06-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted in the Astronomical Journal. 48 pages, 20 Figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/342279
(Abridged) We present results for J and Ks near-IR imaging data on a large sample of 88 galaxies drawn from the catalogue of Impey et al. (1996). The near-IR data unveils many features of LSBGs not seen before in the optical. First, a high fraction of the observed LSBGs are very luminous in the near-IR, indicating that they have a well developed old stellar population, and that older LSBGs are more frequent in the universe than data from optical bands suggested. Second, the near-IR morphologies are often quite different than seen in the optical. Third, we find significant trends between the near-IR morphologies of the galaxies and their ratio of HI mass to near-IR luminosity. Fourth, we find no trend in disk surface brightness with absolute magnitude, but significant correlations when the bulge surface brightness is used. Finally, we find that the formation of a bulge requires a galaxy to have a total baryonic mass above ~ 10**10 Msun. A wide variety of other correlations are explored for the sample. The strongest of our correlations are with the ratio of HI mass to total baryonic mass, MHI/Mbaryonic, which tracks the evolutionary state of the galaxies as they convert gas into stars, and which ranges from 0.05 up to nearly 1 for the galaxies in our sample. We see also trends between MHI/Mbaryonic and central surface density, suggesting that increased star formation efficiency with increasing gas surface density strongly drives the conversion of gas into stars.
Dalcanton Julianne
Galaz Gaspar
Infante Leopoldo
Treister Ezequiel
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