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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 1.1.Outline
- 1.2.Fast versus slow processes
of galaxy evolution
- 1.3.A comment about the name
"pseudobulges"
- 2.SELF-GRAVITATING SYSTEMS EVOLVE BY SPREADING
- 2.1.If dynamical support is by random motions
- 2.2.If dynamical support is by rotation
- 2.3.Spreading in various kinds of
self-gravitating systems
- 2.4.What kinds of galaxy disks evolve secularly?
- 3.THE STUDY OF GALAXY EVOLUTION -
STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS
- 3.1.Inner rings "(r)" and outer
rings "(R)"
- 3.2.Lens Components "(lens)"
- 3.3.Oval Disks
- 3.4.Classical versus physical
morphology of galaxies
- 4.A HEURISTIC INTRODUCTION TO BARS AND
SPIRAL STRUCTURE
- 4.1.Orbital resonances in a
galactic disk
- 4.2.Bars and spirals as
almost-kinematic density waves
- 4.3.The growth, structural
evolution and death of bars
- 5.SECULAR EVOLUTION AND THE GROWTH OF PSEUDOBULGES
- 5.1.The response of gas to a
rotating bar: Construction of outer rings, inner rings and pseudobulges
- 5.2.The observed properties of
pseudobulges
- 5.3.Pseudobulges classification
criteria
- 5.4.Secular evolution and
hierarchical clustering
- 6.ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF
PSEUDOBULGES
- 6.1.A challenge for our theory
of galaxy formation by hierarchical clustering and merging: Why are
there so many pure-disk galaxies?
- 6.2.Supermassive black holes do
not correlate with pseudobulges
- 7.ENVIRONMENTAL SECULAR EVOLUTION:
THE STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF S0 AND SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES
- 7.1.What is (and what is not)
an elliptical galaxy?
- 7.2.The E - Sph dichotomy
- 7.3.Mixed reactions to the E -
Sph dichotomy
- 7.4. Confirming the E-Sph
dichotomy with large galaxy samples
- 7.5.Sph galaxies are bulgeless
S0 galaxies
- 7.6.Spiral and irregular
galaxies have the same structural correlations as S0 galaxy disks and
Sph galaxies
- 7.7.A revised parallel-sequence
classification of galaxies
- 7.8.Parallel-sequence
classification and bimodality in the galaxy color-magnitude relation
- 7.9.S+Im → S0+Sph galaxy
transformation processes
- 7.10.Environmental secular
evolution - "An Idea Whose Time Has Come"
- 8.TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF
GALAXY FORMATION
- 8.1.Formation of ellipticals by
major galaxy mergers
- 8.2.Mergers and secular evolution
both happen in a hierarchically clustering Universe
- REFERENCES