scholarly journals Formation and Evolution of Nucleated Galaxies

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (S235) ◽  
pp. 172-174
Author(s):  
Kenji Bekki
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Globular Clusters ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Galaxy Mergers ◽  
Galaxy Formation And Evolution ◽  
Central Regions ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Nuclear Structures ◽  
High Redshift Universe

AbstractWe discuss how stellar galactic nuclei (SGN) form and evolve during galaxy formation and evolution based on chemodynamical simulations on the central regions (1-1000 pc) of galaxies. Our simulations demonstrate that dissipative formation of SGN through rapid transfer of gas into the central 10 pc of galaxies is more consistent with recent observations of SGN than dissipationless formation of SGN through merging of globular clusters (GCs). Nuclear structures in the remnants of major galaxy mergers between low-mass, nucleated spirals are found to depend strongly on the mass-ratio of massive black holes (MBHs) to SGN in spirals in the sense that the remnants have more distinct SGN in the mergers with the smaller MBH-to-SGN-mass-ratios. During the destruction of low-mass, nucleated galaxies by strong tidal fields of giant galaxies, SGN can remain intact. The stripped SGN can be observed as bright GCs around the giant galaxies. The color-magnitude relation of metal-poor GCs (referred to as “the blue tilt”) recently discovered for bright galaxies is similar to that of SGN, which suggests that the origin of the blue tilt is closely associated with the formation processes of SGN of gas-rich, low-mass dwarfs in the high redshift universe.

scholarly journals The Effect of Galaxy Mergers in the Local Galaxy Population

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (S235) ◽  
pp. 241-241
Author(s):  
Leda Sampson ◽  
Neil Trentham
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Luminosity Function ◽  
Cosmological Models ◽  
Combined Effects ◽  
Galaxy Mergers ◽  
Galaxy Formation And Evolution ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Galaxy Population ◽  
Physical Phenomena

The luminosity function (LF) is one of the most fundamental quantities to be observed in Astronomy. It is determined by the combined effects of the various physical phenomena that drive galaxy formation and evolution, therefore it is a very useful tool to constrain cosmological models.

scholarly journals Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems in the Near-IR

2002 ◽  
Vol 207 ◽  
pp. 294-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Puzia ◽  
Markus Kissler-Patig ◽  
Jean Brodie ◽  
Paul Goudfrooij ◽  
Michael Hilker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Globular Cluster ◽  
Globular Clusters ◽  
Local Group ◽  
Optical Photometry ◽  
Cluster Systems ◽  
Near Ir ◽  
Galaxy Formation And Evolution ◽  
First Results ◽  
Formation And Evolution

Extragalactic Globular Clusters are useful tracers of galaxy formation and evolution. Photometric studies of globular cluster systems beyond the Local Group are still the most popular method to investigate their physical properties, such as their ages and metallicities. However, the limitations of optical photometry are well known. The better wavelength sampling of the underlying cluster's SED using K-band photometry combined with optical passbands allows us to create colors which reduce the age-metallicity degeneracy to the largest extent. Here we report on the very first results of our near-IR photometric survey of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies outside the Local Group.

scholarly journals On the uniqueness of kinematical signatures of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (S312) ◽  
pp. 197-200
Author(s):  
Alice Zocchi ◽  
Mark Gieles ◽  
Vincent Hénault-Brunet
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Globular Clusters ◽  
Velocity Dispersion ◽  
Intermediate Mass ◽  
Anisotropic Models ◽  
Dispersion Profile ◽  
Galaxy Formation And Evolution ◽  
Pressure Anisotropy ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Crucial Ingredient

AbstractFinding an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) in a globular cluster (GC), or proving its absence, is a crucial ingredient in our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. The challenge is to identify a unique signature of an IMBH that cannot be accounted for by other processes. Observational claims of IMBH detection are often based on analyses of the kinematics of stars, such as a rise in the velocity dispersion profile towards the centre. In this contribution we discuss the degeneracy between this IMBH signal and pressure anisotropy in the GC. We show that that by considering anisotropic models it is possible to partially explain the innermost shape of the projected velocity dispersion profile, even though models that do not account for an IMBH do not exhibit a cusp in the centre.

scholarly journals Star Clusters Near and Far

2020 ◽  
Vol 216 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Adamo ◽  
Peter Zeidler ◽  
J. M. Diederik Kruijssen ◽  
Mélanie Chevance ◽  
Mark Gieles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Globular Clusters ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Cluster Formation ◽  
Star Clusters ◽  
Local Universe ◽  
Stellar Feedback ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Numerical And Analytical Methods ◽  
Fundamental Units

Abstract Star clusters are fundamental units of stellar feedback and unique tracers of their host galactic properties. In this review, we will first focus on their constituents, i.e. detailed insight into their stellar populations and their surrounding ionised, warm, neutral, and molecular gas. We, then, move beyond the Local Group to review star cluster populations at various evolutionary stages, and in diverse galactic environmental conditions accessible in the local Universe. At high redshift, where conditions for cluster formation and evolution are more extreme, we are only able to observe the integrated light of a handful of objects that we believe will become globular clusters. We therefore discuss how numerical and analytical methods, informed by the observed properties of cluster populations in the local Universe, are used to develop sophisticated simulations potentially capable of disentangling the genetic map of galaxy formation and assembly that is carried by globular cluster populations.

scholarly journals Panchromatic radiation from galaxies as a probe of galaxy formation and evolution

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (S284) ◽  
pp. 446-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Rowan-Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Star Formation History ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Dust Extinction ◽  
Galaxy Formation And Evolution ◽  
Formation History ◽  
Formation And Evolution

AbstractI review work on modelling the infrared and submillimetre SEDs of galaxies. The underlying physical assumptions are discussed and spherically symmetric, axisymmetric, and 3-dimensional radiative transfer codes are reviewed. Models for galaxies with Spitzer IRS data and for galaxies in the Herschel-Hermes survey are discussed. Searches for high redshift infrared and submillimetre galaxies, the star formation history, the evolution of dust extinction, and constraints from source-counts, are briefly discussed.

scholarly journals Young Star Clusters: Clues to Galaxy Formation and Evolution

2004 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 210-211
Author(s):  
Peter Anders ◽  
Uta Fritze-V. Alvensleben ◽  
Richard de Grijs
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Globular Clusters ◽  
Star Clusters ◽  
Young Star ◽  
Star Formation History ◽  
Galaxy Formation And Evolution ◽  
First Results ◽  
History Of ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Young Clusters

Young clusters are observed to form in a variety of interacting galaxies and violent starbursts, a substantial number resembling the progenitors of the well-studied globular clusters in mass and size. By studying young clusters in merger remnants and peculiar galaxies, we can therefore learn about the violent star formation history of these galaxies. We present a new set of evolutionary synthesis models of our GALEV code specifically developed to include the gaseous emission of presently forming star clusters, and a new tool that allows to determine individual cluster metallicities, ages, extinction values and masses from a comparison of a large grid of model Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) with multi-color observations. First results for the newly-born clusters in NGC 1569 are presented.

scholarly journals Vibrationally Excited HC3N in NGC 4418

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (H15) ◽  
pp. 421-422
Author(s):  
F. Costagliola ◽  
S. Aalto
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Infrared Region ◽  
Power Source ◽  
Energy Output ◽  
Infrared Galaxies ◽  
Vibrationally Excited ◽  
Luminous Infrared Galaxies ◽  
Galaxy Formation And Evolution ◽  
Central Regions ◽  
Formation And Evolution

Luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) emit most of their radiation in the infrared region of the spectrum in the form of dust thermal continuum, with typical luminosities of LIR > 1010 L⊙. The central power source responsible for the total energy output is deeply buried in the dusty central regions of these objects and its origin still unclear. Recent studies by Spoon et al. (2007) and Aalto et al. (2007) suggest that some LIRGs might represent early obscured stages of active galaxies, either AGNs or starbursts, and thus play a fundamental role in galaxy formation and evolution.

scholarly journals A SAURON view of double-barred galaxies

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S262) ◽  
pp. 323-324
Author(s):  
Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres ◽  
Alexandre Vazdekis ◽  
Jesús Falcón-Barroso ◽  
Inma Martínez-Valpuesta
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Spectroscopic Data ◽  
Stellar Population ◽  
Population Analysis ◽  
Barred Galaxies ◽  
Galaxy Formation And Evolution ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Central Regions ◽  
Formation And Evolution

Double bars might be the key mechanisms to transport gas to the very central regions of galaxies, so double-barred galaxies are key objects to better understand the galaxy formation and evolution scenarios. In order to disentangle the role of double bars in the galaxy build up, we are performing a whole kinematical and stellar population analysis of these objects from high S/N spectroscopic data.

scholarly journals Are Ly α emitters segregated in protoclusters regions?

2020 ◽  
Vol 499 (2) ◽  
pp. 2104-2115
Author(s):  
Tomás Hough ◽  
Siddhartha Gurung-López ◽  
Álvaro Orsi ◽  
Sofía A Cora ◽  
Cedric G Lacey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
High Density ◽  
Lyman Alpha ◽  
Alpha Emitters ◽  
Galaxy Formation And Evolution ◽  
Galaxy Sample ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Lyman Alpha Emitters

ABSTRACT The presence of neutral hydrogen in the interstellar medium (ISM) and intergalactic medium (IGM) induces radiative transfer (RT) effects on $\rm {Ly}\,\alpha$ photons that affect the observability of Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs). We use the galform semi-analytic model of galaxy formation and evolution to analyse how these effects shape the spatial distribution of LAEs with respect to $\rm {H}\,\alpha$ emitters (HAEs) around high-density regions at high redshift. We find that when a large sample of protoclusters is considered, HAEs showing also $\rm {Ly}\,\alpha$ emission (HAEs + LAEs) populate the same regions as those that do not display the $\rm {Ly}\,\alpha$ line at $z$ = 2.2. We compare against the protocluster USS1558-003, one of the most massive protoclusters located at $z$ = 2.53. Our results indicate that the strong depletion of HAEs + LAEs present in the high-density regions of USS1558-003 may be due to cosmic variance. We find that at $z$ = 2.2 and $z$ = 3.0, RT of the ISM produces a strong decline (30–50 per cent) of the clustering amplitude of HAEs + LAEs with respect to HAEs towards the protoclusters centre. At $z$ = 5.7, given the early evolutionary state of protoclusters and galaxies, the clustering of HAEs + LAEs has a smaller variation (10–20 per cent) towards the protoclusters centre. Depending on the equivalent width and luminosity criteria of the emission-line galaxy sample, the IGM can have a mild or a null effect on galaxy properties and clustering in high-density regions.

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