On the Generation of the Hubble Sequence through an Internal Secular Dynamical Process
Abstract
The secular evolution process, which slowly transforms the morphology of a galaxy over its lifetime, could naturally account for observed properties of the great majority of physical galaxies if both stellar and gaseous accretion processes are taken into account. As an emerging paradigm for galaxy evolution, its dynamical foundation had been established in the past few years, and its observational consequences are yet to be fully explored. The secular evolution picture provides a coherent framework for understanding the extraordinary regularity and the systematic variation of galaxy properties along the Hubble sequence.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0406583,
title = {On the Generation of the Hubble Sequence through an Internal Secular Dynamical Process},
author = {Xiaolei Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0406583},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
10 pages, 1 figure, invited talk presented at the international conference on "Penetrating Bars through the Masks of Cosmic Dust: The Hubble Tuning Fork Strikes a New Note", June 2004, South Africa