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A Connection Between Bulge Properties and the Bimodality of Galaxies

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 نشر من قبل Niv Drory
 تاريخ النشر 2007
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The global colors of galaxies have recently been shown to follow bimodal distributions. Galaxies separate into a ``red sequence, populated prototypically by early-type galaxies, and a ``blue cloud, whose typical objects are late-type disk galaxies. Intermediate-type (Sa-Sbc) galaxies populate both regions. It has been suggested that this bimodality reflects the two-component nature of disk-bulge galaxies. However, it has now been established that there are two types of bulges: ``classical bulges that are dynamically hot systems resembling (little) ellipticals, and ``pseudobulges, dynamically cold, flattened, disk-like structures that could not have formed via violent relaxation. Therefore thee question is whether at types Sa-Sbc, where both bulge types are found, the red-blue dichotomy separates galaxies at some value of disk-to-bulge ratio, $B/T$, or, whether it separates galaxies of different bulge type, irrespective of their $B/T$. We identify classical bulges and pseudobulges morphologically with HST images in a sample of nearby galaxies. Detailed surface photometry reveals that: (1) The red -- blue dichotomy is a function of bulge type: at the same $B/T$, pseudobulges are in globally blue galaxies and classical bulges are in globally red galaxies. (2) Bulge type also predicts where the galaxy lies in other (bimodal) global structural parameters. (3) Hence, the red -- blue dichotomy is not due to decreasing bulge prominence alone, and the bulge type of a galaxy carries significance for the galaxys evolutionary history ... (Abridged)

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