Secular evolution and the formation of pseudobulges in disk galaxies

J Kormendy, RC Kennicutt Jr - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The Universe is in transition. At early times, galactic evolution was dominated by
hierarchical clustering and merging, processes that are violent and rapid. In the far future …

The Fueling and Evolution of AGN: Internal and External Triggers

S Jogee - Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei at all Scales, 2006 - Springer
The quest for a coherent picture of nuclear activity has witnessed giant leaps in the last
decades. Four decades ago, the idea was put forward that accretion of matter onto a …

A classical morphological analysis of galaxies in the Spitzer survey of stellar structure in galaxies (S4G)

RJ Buta, K Sheth, E Athanassoula… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S 4 G) is the largest
available database of deep, homogeneous middle-infrared (mid-IR) images of galaxies of all …

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G): Multi-component decomposition strategies and data release

H Salo, E Laurikainen, J Laine… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S 4 G) is a deep 3.6 and 4.5
μm imaging survey of 2352 nearby (< 40 Mpc) galaxies. We describe the S 4 G data analysis …

The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies ()

K Sheth, M Regan, JL Hinz, AG De Paz… - Publications of the …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies () is an Exploration Science
Legacy Program approved for the Spitzer post–cryogenic mission. It is a volume-, magnitude …

Evolution of the bar fraction in COSMOS: quantifying the assembly of the hubble sequence

K Sheth, DM Elmegreen, BG Elmegreen… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We have analyzed the redshift-dependent fraction of galactic bars over 0.2< z< 0.84 in 2157
luminous face-on spiral galaxies from the COSMOS 2 deg 2 field. Our sample is an order of …

Galaxy Zoo: bars in disc galaxies

KL Masters, RC Nichol, B Hoyle, C Lintott… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We present first results from Galaxy Zoo 2, the second phase of the highly successful Galaxy
Zoo project (http://www. galaxyzoo. org). Using a volume-limited sample of 13 665 disc …

A multimission catalogue of ultraluminous X-ray source candidates

DJ Walton, ADA Mackenzie, H Gully… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a new, multimission catalogue of ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) candidates,
based on recent data releases from each of the XMM–Newton, Swift, and Chandra …

A near-infrared study of 2MASS bars in local galaxies: an anchor for high-redshift studies

K Menéndez-Delmestre, K Sheth… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We have measured the fraction of bars in nearby spiral galaxies using near-infrared J, H,
and K s images of 151 spiral galaxies from 2MASS. This local sample provides an anchor for …

The formation of disc galaxies in a ΛCDM universe

O Agertz, R Teyssier, B Moore - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We study the formation of disc galaxies in a fully cosmological framework using adaptive
mesh refinement simulations. We perform an extensive parameter study of the main subgrid …