Growth of disc-like pseudo-bulges in SDSS DR7 since z = 0.1

Abstract

Cosmological simulations predict more classical bulges than their observational counterpart in the local Universe. Here, we quantify evolution of the bulges since $z=0.1$ using photometric parameters of nearly 39,000 unbarred disc galaxies from SDSS DR7 which are well represented by two components. We adopted a combination of the Sérsic index and Kormendy relation to separate classical bulges and disc-like pseudo-bulges. We found that the fraction of pseudo-bulges (classical bulges) smoothly increases (decreases) as the Universe gets older. In the history of the Universe, there comes a point ($z\approx 0.016$) when classical bulges and pseudo-bulges become equal in number. The fraction of pseudo-bulges rises with increasing bulge to disc half-light radius ratio until R${}_{\mathrm{e}}$/R${}_{\mathrm{hlr}}\approx 0.6$ suggesting concentrated disc is the most favourable place for pseudo-bulge formation. The mean ellipticity of pseudo-bulges is always greater than that of classical bulges and it decreases with decreasing redshift indicating that the bulges tend to be more axisymmetric with evolution. Also, the massive bulges are progressing towards axisymmetry at steeper rate than the low-mass bulges. There is no tight correlation of bulge Sérsic index evolution with other photometric properties of the galaxy. Using the sample of multi-component fitting of $S^{4}G$ data and $N-$body galaxy models, we have verified that our results are consistent or even more pronounced with multi-component fitting and high-resolution photometry.

16 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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