Faint Fuzzy Stuff: The missing baryons?

An Outline

An Overview

• Why does anyone care about this?
• What is surface photometry?
• What are low surface brightness galaxies?

A bit of history

• LSB Galaxies - the uproar
• 1987 til now (Malin I and friends)
• Understanding selection effects

My research

• Data analysis
• The data so far
• Things to come

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