The properties of a large volume-limited sample of face-on low surface
  brightness disk galaxies
  We select a large volume-limited sample of low surface brightness galaxies
(LSBGs, 2,021) to investigate their statistical properties and their
differences from high surface brightness galaxies (HSBGs, 3,639) in details.
The distributions of stellar masses of LSBGs and HSBGs are nearly the same and
they have the same median values. Thus this volume-limited sample have good
completeness and further remove the effect of stellar masses on their other
properties when we compare LSBGs and HSBGs. We found that LSBGs tend to have
lower stellar metallicities, and lower effect dust attenuations indicating that
they have lower dust, than HSBGs. The LSBGs have relatively higher stellar
mass-to-light ratios, higher gas fraction, lower star forming rates (SFRs), and
lower specific SFRs than HSBGs. Moreover, with the decreasing surface
brightness, gas fraction increase, while the SFRs and specific SFRs decrease
rapidly for the sample galaxies. This could mean that the star formation
histories between LSBGs and HSBGs are different, HSBGs may have stronger star
forming activities than LSBGs.
