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Linking Clustering Properties and the Evolution of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2007

Dominik J. Bomans
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany email: [email protected]
S. Dominik Rosenbaum
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany email: [email protected] DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234 Weβling, Germany
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Abstract

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The reasons for the presence of two branches of galaxy evolution, one producing high surface brightness disks and one creating low surface brightness disks, is still unknown. Possible are the imprint of the properties of the dark matter halo, as well as evolutionary effects. In this paper we present an analysis of the clustering properties of LSB and HSB galaxies using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We show that LSB galaxies reside in regions of lower galaxy density than HSB galaxies on all scales between 0.8 and 8 Mpc, from scales of galaxy pairs to filaments of the Large Scale Structure. This implies a probable scenario of LSB galaxies preferentially forming as a result of local peaks in the large-scale valleys of the primordial density distribution.

Type
Contributed Papers
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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