Near-infrared observations of galaxies in Pisces-Perseus. V. On the origin of bulges

Details Near-infrared observations of galaxies in Pisces-Perseus. V. On the origin of bulges Near-infrared observations of galaxies in Pisces-Perseus. V. On the origin of bulges

2003-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311213v1

Astron.Astrophys. 414 (2004) 905-918

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, A&A in press

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20031679

We investigate the scaling relations of bulge and disk structural parameters for a sample of 108 disk galaxies.Structural parameters are obtained from 2D bulge/disk decomposition of H-band images.Bulges are modelled with a generalized exponential (Sersic) with variable shape index n. We find that bulge effective scalelength and luminosity increase with increasing n, but disk properties are independent of bulge shape. As Hubble type T increases, bulges become less luminous and their mean effective surface brightness gets fainter; disks shows a similar, but much weaker, trend. When bulge parameters are compared with disk ones, they are tightly correlated for n=1 bulges. The correlations gradually worsen with increasing n such that n=4 bulges appear virtually independent of their disks. The Kormendy relation, surf. brightness vs. effect. radius, is shown to depend on bulge shape; the two parameters are tightly correlated in n=4 bulges, and increasingly less so as n decreases; disks are well correlated .Bulge-to-disk size ratios are independent of Hubble type, but smaller for exponential bulges. Strongly barred SB galaxies with exponential bulges are more luminous than their unbarred counterparts. Exponential bulges appear to be closely related to their underlying disks, while bulges with higher n values are less so. We interpret our results as being most consistent with a secular evolutionary scenario, in which dissipative processes in the disk are responsible for building up the bulges in most spirals.

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