Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-01-31
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 8 figures, Invited talk presented at the 2nd APCTP workshop on Astrophysics, Pohang, Korea (June 2002)
Scientific paper
It is now a well established fact that galaxies undergo significant morphological transformation during their lifetimes, manifesting as an evolution along the Hubble sequence from the late to the early Hubble types. The physical processes commonly believed to be responsible for this observed evolution trend, i.e. the major and minor mergers, as well as gas accretion under a barred potential, though demonstrated applicability to selected types of galaxies, on the whole have failed to reproduce the most important statistical and internal properties of galaxies. The secular evolution mechanism reviewed in this paper has the potential to overcome most of the known difficulties of the existing theories to provide a natural and coherent explanation of the properties of present day as well as high-redshift galaxies.
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