The history of galaxies

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Origin, Formation, Evolution, Age, And Star Formation, Observational Cosmology, Dark Matter

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The observational advancement made over the last five years has enabled us to understand the history of galaxies below z<1. The resulting picture in the 0th order approximation is that giant galaxies were already mature by z=1, showing only small amount of the evolution after this redshift: on the other hand, smallish galaxies, a typical example being irregular galaxies, evolve fast at lower redshift, undergoing active star formation. These galaxies are primarily responsible for the long-standing faint blue galaxy problem. I infer that irregular galaxies and disks of late-type spiral galaxies are assembled late in the universe (mostly z=1-2) and are more gaseous; hence undergo active star formation. The evolution of galaxies at low redshift is basically a gas depleting process in a quasi-closed system. Much less is known for the evolution at z>1, but we are beginning to learn what happened with the galaxies at such redshift by virtue of the Hubble Deep Field observation and deep redshift surveys, especially those for the K-band selected sample. These observations already give interesting constraints on the early evolution of elliptical galaxies, a key question for the history of galaxies. I try to summarize how these observations are understood with a simple conventional model, or where it fails. I will also note the advantages and disadvantages of a rival model for the evolution of galaxies-the model based on the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) picture. Discussion is also made on key observations to understand the formation and early evolution of galaxies [1].

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