Stacy McGaugh
Low Surface Brightness Spiral Galaxies
Topics to be addressed:
NUMBERS
- The role of selection effects and isophotal measurement procedures in
galaxy surveys
- The number density of spirals as a function of surface brightness
- Systematic effects in determinations of the local luminosity function
- Relevance of low surface brightness galaxies to faint galaxy counts
EVOLUTION
- Relevance of low surface brightness galaxies to faint galaxy morphology
- Gas content and star formation histories of spiral galaxies as a
function of luminosity and surface brightness
- Stellar population evolutionary dos and don'ts
DARK MATTER
- Dark matter content as a function of luminosity and surface brightness
- Requirements imposed on dark matter theories
- Halo density structure: can exploding galaxies salvage CDM?