Abstract
Low Surface Brightness galaxies (LSBs) may well constitute an important component of the Universe and a good fraction of baryons may even be locked up in their gravitational potential. Existence of such massive objects was predicted from an investigation of gravitational lens systems more than a decade ago (Narasimha & Chitre, 1989). There are more compelling reasons for believing their universality based on the of the analysis of the images around the cusp caustics in some of the well-studied lenses. A complete sample of the mass, size and rotation velocity of LSBs in our neighbourhood, as well as in a limited volume at a larger redshift will be important for estimation of power spectrum as well as evolution of structures in the Universe. The GMRT type instrument is ideally suited for detection and study of the LSBs. We expect to detect 21 cm emission from around 2 to 10 LSBs per beam of GMRT dish at the level of 5 mJy flux with a survey covering 30 Mhz bandwidth, if their line width is of the order of 30 km/sec.
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