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Secular Evolution and the Formation of Pseudobulges in Disk Galaxies

Kormendy, John; Kennicutt, Robert C., Jr.

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, oval disks, spiral st…

Eros and Faint Red Galaxies

McCarthy, Patrick J.

This chapter reviews the properties of faint IR-selected field galaxies and the extremely red color-selected populations in particular. These populations are a mix of passively evolving stellar systems and heavily obscured star-forming galaxies. The star-forming component appears to constitute 20 50% of the population depending on the magnitude an…