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Méndez-Abreu, J.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Corsini, E. M.; Simonneau, E.
Bibliographical reference
Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 245, p. 139-140
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2008
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Traditionally, the study of the structural parameters of galaxies have
been used to understand the bulge formation processes. However, one
piece lost in this study is the three-dimensional shape of the bulges.
In this work, the structural parameters of a magnitude-limited sample of
148 unbarred S0-Sb galaxies were derived to study the correlations
between bulge and disk parameters as well as the probability
distribution function (PDF) of the intrinsic equatorial ellipticity of
bulges. A new algorithm (GASP-2D) was used to perform the bidimensional
bulge-disk decomposition of J-band galaxy images extracted from the
archive of the 2MASS survey. The PDF of intrinsic ellipticities was
derived from the distribution of the observed ellipticities of bulges
and misalignments between bulges and disks. About 80% of bulges in S0-Sb
galaxies are not oblate but triaxial ellipsoids. Their mean axial ratio
in the equatorial plane is =0.85. There is not significant
dependence of their PDF on morphology, light concentration, and
luminosity. The scenarios in which bulges assembled from mergers and/or
grew over long times through disk secular evolution have to be tested
against the derived PDF of bulge intrinsic ellipticities.
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