GALAXY FORMATION AND EVOLUTION: RECENT PROGRESS

Richard Ellis


California Institute of Technology, MS 105-24, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA


Abstract. In this series of lectures (1) I review recent observational progress in constraining models of galaxy formation and evolution highlighting the importance advances in addressing questions of the assembly history and origin of the Hubble sequence in the context of modern pictures of structure formation.


Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

GALAXY FORMATION AND COSMOLOGY

STAR FORMATION HISTORIES

MORPHOLOGICAL DATA FROM HST

CONSTRAINING THE MASSES OF DISTANT GALAXIES

ORIGIN OF THE HUBBLE SEQUENCE

CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES



1 Lectures given at the XIth Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics "Galaxies at High Redshift" in November 1999 updated to reflect progress in the subject during 2000. Back.

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