Bars, Spiral Structure, and Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies
arXiv:astro-ph/0510245 · doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-5573-7_28
Abstract
Simulations and observations of galactic bars suggest they do not commonly evolve into bulges, although it is possible that the earliest bars formed bulges long ago, when galaxies were smaller, denser, and had more gas. The most highly evolved of today's bars may become lenses over a Hubble time. Most galaxies in the early Universe are extremely clumpy, with 10^8-10^9 Msun blue clumps that resemble in color and magnitude the isolated field objects nearby. The presence of blue and irregular bars at high redshift suggests that some bars formed primarily in the gas phase accompanied by giant starbursts, rather than in pure stellar disks like most models. Secular and non-secular processes that cause galaxies to evolve are summarized.
11 pages, 2 figures, Terschelling Conference, July 2005, to appear in Island Universes: Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies, Springer
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