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Balcells, M.
Bibliographical reference
Disks of Galaxies: Kinematics, Dynamics and Peturbations, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 275. Edited by E. Athanassoula, A. Bosma, and R. Mujica. ISBN: 1-58381-117-6. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2002, pp. 83-86
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2002
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Description
I present our recent results on bulge evolution. (1) We have modeled the
accretion of satellite galaxies onto disk-bulge-halo galaxies, and show
that accretion-driven bulge growth generates two of the observed trends
of galaxies along the Hubble sequence, namely the higher Sersic index
toward more massive bulges, and the appearance of a thick disk with
greater scale length than that of the thin disk. These results suggest
that collisionless merging might have been important for large bulges,
and unimportant for bulges with ~ exponential surface brightness
profiles. (2) We have derived the B- and K-band Fundamental Plane (FP)
for a sample of inclined bulges, finding a tight agreement with that of
Coma ellipticals. This finding argues against a significant young
population of bulges irrespective of the Sersic index. (3) We have used
HST/NICMOS imaging of S0 -- Sbc bulges to derive systematics of central
profile slopes and central densities. We find power-law slopes in the
inner 100 pc that are comparable to those of intermediate luminosity
ellipticals.