Low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies are a major contributor to the galaxy population in both field and clusters. Due to the selection criteria of earlier catalogs, this galaxy population was largely missed until mid of the '80s. During recent years the interest in this field rose steadily. In 1998 IAU Colloquium 171, held at Cardiff (Wales), was solely devoted to LSB galaxies.
With a fastly increasing community worldwide, the progress made since Cardiff, and new large-scale surveys planned and under way, it seemed to be timely to organize a splinter meeting on LSB galaxies at the AG Herbsttagung at Goettingen 1999.
This WWW page will serve as the info-central for the splinter meeting and will hold our (modest) online proceedings. We dropped the idea of larger texts and link only the abstracts (on the program page).
LSB Galaxy Links
- Greg Bothun's short intro
to LSB galaxies
- Conference Highlights from IAU Coll 171
- Greg Bothun's Cardiff follow-up page
- Conference Highlights from IAU Coll 171
Large Scale Surveys
In addition to the wealth of information about the high redshift universe, deep, large area surveys contain a lot of informations about the local galaxy population, especially on low surface brightness and dwarf galaxies.
We started to mine some of these data sets and will use the Calar Alto 1.23m telescope with the WWFPP focal reducer for our own survey program.
Some Links of Large Deep-Imaging Surveys: