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Balcells, M.
Bibliographical reference
Galaxy Evolution: Emerging Insights and Future Challenges ASP Conference Series, Vol. 419, proceedings of a conference held 11-14 November 2008 at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA. Edited by S. Jogee, I. Marinova, L. Hao, and G. A. Blanc. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2009., p.79
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2009
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Description
The last decade has seen an amazing transformation in our ideas about
the central bulges of disk galaxies. We are probably only half-way
through this change. In this talk I give an overview of three areas of
my specific interest; all are presented as ingredients for further
refining our concept of bulge. First, I discuss whether the inner few
hundred parsec of disk galaxies do pertain to the bulge or to the disk.
Second, I present results on colors of bulges and disks from the local
Universe to z˜1: I will put emphasis on the fact that colors of
bulges and inner disks are very similar. Third, I will use combined data
on colors and central surface brightness to identify bulges growing
inside disks at z˜1.0, and to conjecture that the descendants of
these forming events may correspond to today’s so-called
pseudo-bulges.