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On the nature of the peculiar superthin galaxy UGC 12281

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arxiv 1201.2538 v1 pith:ZOJH5Y2P submitted 2012-01-12 astro-ph.GA

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UGC 12281 has been classified as having a pure disk and being a low surface brightness galaxy (LSBG), thus being an obvious member of the so-called superthin galaxies. At the same time it represents an extremely untypical type of LSBG due to its remarkable amount of current star formation and evidence for extraplanar ionized gas. This makes it become a perfect tool to investigate the triggering of star formation in LSB galaxies, located in an alleged isolated area. By means of deep photometry and long-slit spectroscopy we analyse the H$\alpha$ halo and verify the existence of a potential dwarf companion which we found on processed SDSS images.

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