Multiwavelength study of nearly face-on low surface brightness disk galaxies

作     者：Dong Gao Yan-Chun Liang Shun-Fang Liu Guo-Hu Zhong Xiao-Yan Chen Yan-Bin Yang Francois Hammer Guo-Chao Yang Li-Cai Deng Jing-Yao Hu 

作者机构：National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100012 China ycliang @ nao. cas. cn dgao @ nao. cas. cn Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100012 China Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China GEPI Observatoire de Paris-Meudon 92195 Meudon France Department of Physics Hebei Normal University Shijiazhuang 050016 China 

出 版 物：《Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics》 (天文和天体物理学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2010年第10卷第12期

页      面：1223-1241页

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学科分类：080801[工学-电机与电器] 0808[工学-电气工程] 07[理学] 08[工学] 070401[理学-天体物理] 0803[工学-光学工程] 0704[理学-天文学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10933001, 10973006, 10973015 and 10673002) the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program Nos. 2007CB815404 and 2007CB815406) the Young Researcher Grant of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

主　　题：galaxies: evolution    galaxies: formation    galaxies: photometry   galaxies: spiral    galaxies: statistics    ultraviolet: galaxies 

摘      要：We study the ages of a large sample （1802） of nearly face-on disk low surface brightness galaxies （LSBGs） using the evolutionary population synthesis （EPS） model PEGASE with an exponentially decreasing star formation rate to fit their mul- tiwavelength spectral energy distributions （SEDs） from far-ultraviolet （FUV） to nearinfrared （NIR）. The derived ages of LSBGs are 1-5 Gyr for most of the sample no matter if constant or varying dust extinction is adopted, which are similar to most of the previous studies on smaller samples. This means that these LSBGs formed the majority of their stars quite recently. However, a small part of the sample （~2%-3%） has larger ages of 5-8 Gyr, meaning their major star forming process may have occurred earlier. At the same time, a large sample （5886） of high surface brightness galaxies （HSBGs） are selected and studied using the same method for comparisons. The de- rived ages are 1-5 Gyr for most of the sample （97%） as well. These results probably mean that these LSBGs have not much different star formation histories from their HSBGs counterparts. However, we should notice that the HSBGs are generally about 0.2 Gyr younger, which could mean that the HSBGs may have undergone more recent star forming activities than the LSBGs.