Three Types of Galaxy Disks

D (2); E (3)); Garching; Groningen; Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias; I. Trujillo (3); J.E. Beckman (3) (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute; La Laguna; Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik; M.Pohlen (1)

arxiv: 0706.3830 · v1 · submitted 2007-06-26 · 🌌 astro-ph

Three Types of Galaxy Disks

M.Pohlen (1) , P. Erwin (2) , I. Trujillo (3) , J.E. Beckman (3) (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute , Groningen , NL (1) , Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik , Garching

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We present our new scheme for the classification of radial stellar surface brightness profiles for disk galaxies. We summarize the current theoretical attempts to understand their origin and give an example of an application by comparing local galaxies with their counterparts at high redshift (z~1).

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