Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-08-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 7 Postscript figures; requires iaus.cls; to appear in Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges, Proceedings IAU Sympo
Scientific paper
10.1017/S1743921308017407
Observational and theoretical evidence that internal, slow ("secular") evolution reshapes galaxy disks is reviewed in Kormendy & Kennicutt (2004, ARAA, 42, 603). This update has three aims. First, I emphasize that this evolution is very general -- it is as fundamental to the evolution of galaxy disks as (e.g.) core collapse is to globular clusters, as the production of hot Jupiters is to the evolution of protoplanetary disks, and as evolution to red giants containing proto-white-dwarfs is to stellar evolution. One consequence for disk galaxies is the buildup of dense central components that get mistaken for classical (i.e., merger-built) bulges but that were grown out of disk stars and gas. We call these pseudobulges. Second, I review new results on pseudobulge star formation and structure and on the distinction between boxy and disky pseudobulges. Finally, I highlight how these results make a galaxy formation problem more acute. How can hierarchical clustering produce so many pure disk galaxies with no evidence for merger-built bulges?
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