Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-10-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
2 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of IAU Symposium 235, "Galaxy Evolution Across the Hubble Time", eds. F. Combes and J. Palous
Scientific paper
10.1017/S1743921306005928
Deep surveys conducted during the past decades have shown that galaxies in the distant universe are generally of more irregular shapes, and are disky in appearance and in their star formation rate, compared to galaxies in similar environments in the nearby universe. Given that the merger rate between z=2 and the local universe is far from adequate to account for this observed morphological transformation rate, an internal mechanism for the morphological transformation of galaxies is to be sought, whose operation can be further aided by environmental factors. The secular evolution mechanism, especially with the discovery of a collisionless dissipation mechanism for stars within the secular evolution paradigm, has provided just such a framework for understanding the morphological evolution of galaxies across the Hubble time. In this paper we will summarize the past theoretical results on the dynamical mechanisms for secular evolution, and highlight new results in the analysis of the observational data, which confirmed that density waves in physical galaxies possess the kind of characteristics which could produce the observed rates of morphological transformation for both cluster and field galaxies.
Buta Ronald J.
Zhang Xiaolei
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