Observational tests of the galaxy formation process
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
The mutual feedback between star formation and nuclear activity in large spheroidal galaxies may be a key ingredient to overcome several difficulties plaguing current semi-analytic models for galaxy formation. We discuss some observational implications of the model by Granato et al. (2003) for the co-evolution of galaxies and active nuclei at their centers and stress the potential of the forthcoming surveys of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect on arcminute scales, down to K levels, to investigate the early galaxy formation phases, difficult to access by other means.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0401471,
title = {Observational tests of the galaxy formation process},
author = {Gianfranco De Zotti and Gian Luigi Granato and Laura Silva and Luigi Danese},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0401471},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6, pages, 1 figure, to appear in proc. of the meeting "Baryons on Cosmic Structures", Roma, October 20-21, 2003