Abstract

Recently acquired near-IR imaging (J and K,) of low surface brightness galaxies is presented. The data includes 52 galaxies with log[M-HI/Mo-circle dot] less than or equal to 9.0 and 58 galaxies with log[M-HI/M-circle dot] greater than or equal to 9.5. These galaxies have been selected from the catalogue of Impey et al. (1996), and all of them are observable from both hemispheres. The principal goal of this research is to investigate the poorly understood giant and old stellar content of these galaxies. Current work includes total and isophotal photometry, and comparison with spectrophotometric models of galaxy evolution, including the role of age and metallicity. Already allocated observing time at LCO for this year will provide high S/N B and I imaging.