# Bar properties and photometry of barred low surface brightness disc galaxies

## TL;DR

This study analyzes the properties of bars in low surface brightness galaxies, comparing them to high surface brightness galaxies, and introduces a new method for measuring bar length that accounts for seeing effects.

## Contribution

It provides new measurements of bar properties in LSBs, compares them with HSBs, and introduces an improved bar length measurement technique based on azimuthal light profiles.

## Key findings

- Bars in LSBs are shorter and weaker than in HSBs.
- Bar pattern speeds in LSBs are comparable to HSBs, mostly 'fast'.
- Barred LSBs are slightly brighter and have shallower disc scale lengths than unbarred LSBs.

## Abstract

We measure the bar properties (length, strength, and corotation radius) of a sample of barred low surface brightness (LSBs) galaxies and compare to previous results for both LSBs and high surface brightness galaxy (HSBs) samples. In addition, we present new optical $\textit{B}$- and $\textit{I}$-band surface brightness profiles, magnitudes, and colours. We find that bars in LSBs are shorter and weaker when compared with those in HSBs galaxies. Based on analysis of four different bar length measures on simulated galaxy images, we find our bar length measure based on azimuthal light profiles is the most accurate out of the four tested here when seeing effects are taken into account. We also find that bars in LSBs have comparable relative bar pattern speeds to those in HSBs, the majority of which we find to be `fast' (i.e. $\mathcal{R} <$ 1.4). In general, we find that our barred LSBs have comparable central surface brightnesses and total magnitudes to unbarred LSBs, albeit slightly brighter. Our barred LSBs fall on a shallower disc scale length (h) vs $M_{B}^{T}$ relation than unbarred LSBs. Finally, we find our barred LSBs to be just as gas rich as unbarred LSBs (i.e. $M_{gas}/(M_{gas} + M_{*}) > 0.5$).