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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 1.1.What is a Bulge? Classical and
Physical Morphology
- 2.SECULAR EVOLUTION OF BARRED
GALAXIES
- 2.1.Morphology of Barred
Galaxies
- 2.2.Dynamics of Barred Galaxies: The
Importance of Resonances
- 2.3.Bar-Driven Radial Transport of
Gas: The Formation of Rings
- 3.THE SECULAR EVOLUTION OF UNBARRED
GALAXIES
- 3.1.Many "Unbarred" Galaxies Show
Bars In the Infrared
- 3.2.Oval Galaxies
- 3.3.The Demise of Bars
- 3.4.Global Pattern Spirals
- 3.5.Conclusion
- 4.THE OBSERVED PROPERTIES OF
PSEUDEOBULGES
- 4.1.Embedded Disks, Spiral
Structure, and Star Formation
- 4.2.Exponential Bulges
- 4.3.Some "Bulges" Are As Flat As
Disks
- 4.4.Bars Within Bars
- 4.5.Box-Shaped Bulges
- 4.6."Bulges" With The Dynamics of
Disks: The V /
-
Diagram
- 4.7.Velocity Dispersions and the
Faber-Jackson Relation
- 4.8.Pseudobulges and the Fundamental
Plane Correlations
- 4.9.Nuclei
- 4.10.In Which Pseudobulges Fade
Out Into Disks
- 5.CENTRAL STAR FORMATION &
PSEUDOBULGE GROWTH
- 5.1.Case Studies: NGC 1326, NGC
1512, NGC 4314, NGC 5248
- 5.2.General Properties of
Circumnuclear Regions
- 5.3.Constraining Evolution Timescales
and Pseudobulge Growth
- 6.COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF
SECULAR EVOLUTION
- 6.1.Evolution Along the Hubble
Sequence
- 6.2.Merger-Induced Versus Secular
Star Formation in Bulges
- 7.COMPLICATIONS
- 7.1.Pseudobulges Do Not Have To
Be Flat
- 7.2.Pseudobulges Do Not Have To
Be Young
- 7.3.Demise of Bars. II. Is
Pseudobulge Formation Self-Limiting?
- 8.CAVEATS
- 8.1.Stellar Populations in
Classical Bulges and Pseudobulges
- 8.2.Can Minor Accretion Events Mimic
Pseudobulge Growth?
- 8.3.Disky Distortions in
Elliptical Galaxies
- 9.CONCLUSION
- 9.1.A Preliminary Prescription for
Recognizing Pseudobulges
- 9.2.Perspective
- REFERENCES