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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION: THE PARADIGM OF
GALAXY EVOLUTION
- 2.DISK GROWTH: THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM
PROBLEM
- 2.1.The angular momentum
catastrophe
- 2.2.The cosmological spin
distribution and individual haloes
- 2.3.The tidal torque theory and
the origin of the universal angular momentum distribution
3.DISK GROWTH: MERGERS
3.1.Mergers and associated
processes
3.2.Dry and wet disk mergers:
spheroids or rebuilding?
4.MERGERS AND THEIR SECONDARY
BY-PRODUCTS
4.1.Tidal dwarfs
4.2.Polar ring galaxies and
ring galaxies
4.3.'Mergers' in clusters:
galaxy harassment
5.DISK GROWTH: COLD ACCRETION
5.1.The standard view and the
new paradigm
5.2.Accretion shock?
5.3.Cold flows: redshift
evolution
5.4.Cold flows: between the
virial radius and the disk
5.5.Cold accretion flows in the
phase space
6.DISK GROWTH: FEEDBACK
6.1.Bulgeless disks
6.2.What type of feedback ?
6.3.Feedback and star formation
7.HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES
7.1.The high-redshift galaxy
zoo
7.2.Mass and luminosity
functions
8.DISK EVOLUTION: THE CENTRAL KPC
AND THE SMBHs
8.1.Bars and the morphology of the
central kpc
8.2.The origin of SMBHs: the
by-product of galaxy evolution ?
9.SUMMARY AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
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