* Astronomy

Title: On the nature of the peculiar superthin galaxy UGC 12281
Authors: Philip Günster, Dominik J. Bomans

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 ionised 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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