Growth of Massive Bulges by Mergers of Dense Satellites

Bibcode
2003mglh.conf...97B
DOI
10.1007/10899892_23
Balcells, Marc; Aguerri, J. Alfonso L.; Peletier, Reynier F.
Bibliographical reference

The Mass of Galaxies at Low and High Redshift: Proceedings of the European Southern Observatory and Universitäts-Sternwarte München Workshop Held in Venice, Italy, 24-26 October 2001, ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA. ISBN 3-540-00205-7. Edited by R. Bender and A. Renzini. Springer-Verlag, 2003, p. 97

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2003
Number of authors
3
IAC number of authors
2
Citations
1
Refereed citations
1
Description
We present merger models suggesting that bulge growth via accretion of dense satellites generates two of the observed trends of galaxies along the Hubble sequence, namely the increase of Sersic index toward more massive bulges, and the appearance of a thick disk with higher scale length than that of the thin disk. We argue that bulges with exponential surface brightness profiles cannot have grown significantly from collisionless satellite accretion.
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Non-refereed

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