Secular Evolution and the Formation of Pseudobulges in Disk Galaxies
Secular Evolution and the Formation of Pseudobulges in Disk Galaxies
▪ 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, evolution will mostly be secular—the slow rearrangement of energy and mass that results from interactions involving collective phenomena such as bars, …