The cosmic evolution of galaxy structure /

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"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction to scientific classification -- 1.2. Historical background -- 1.3. Stranger things--irregular, peculiar, and dwarf galaxies -- 1.4. Low surface brightness galaxies -- 1.5. Primer on galaxy structure and galaxy formation -- 1.6. Book structure2. Galaxy structure and its meaning -- 2.1. Analyzing the properties of galaxies -- 2.2. A new classification system: the classification cube -- 2.3. Summary3. Measuring galaxy structures -- 3.1. Parametric measurements of structure -- 3.2. Size measurements -- 3.3. Cas parameters--non-parametric morphologies -- 3.4. Identifying mergers -- 3.5. Non-evolutionary effects on structure -- 3.6. Summary4. The distant universe -- 4.1. Pre-Hubble deep field imaging with Hubble -- 4.2. The Hubble Deep Field -- 4.3. Galaxy visual morphology evolution -- 4.4. Galaxy bar evolution -- 4.5. The formation of spiral structure -- 4.6. Numerical simulations of galaxy structure5. Physical evolution of galaxy structure -- 5.1. Local universe benchmarks -- 5.2. The distant universe -- 5.3. Galaxy morphological evolution -- 5.4. Morphological k-corrections -- 5.5. Size evolution -- 5.6. The galaxy merger history -- 5.7. Mass assembly through merging -- 5.8. Gas accretion from the intergalactic medium6. Secondary products of evolution -- 6.1. Interaction and merger induced star formation -- 6.2. Interaction induced central black hole formation -- 6.3. Environmental effects on structure -- 6.4. Summary7. Applications of structural evolution -- 7.1. Cosmological parameters and galaxy structure -- 7.2. The dark matter particle temperature -- 7.3. Models of galaxy formation8. The present and future -- 8.1. Extended diffuse light in galaxies -- 8.2. Emission from the circumgalactic medium -- 8.3. Machine learning approaches -- 8.4. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) -- 8.5. Non-optical structure and morphology -- 8.6. Very high resolution imaging -- 8.7. Coda.Galaxies are the fundamental units of cosmic matter that make up the universe and they change in remarkable ways over 13.7 billion years of cosmic time. We are just now discovering how galaxies we can see over these billions of years are evolving from small, star forming systems to larger, more massive and passive systems at later times. This book explains the structural evolution of galaxies, how we measure it, how these measurements change with time, and how observing this reveals important information about galaxy formation and evolution. It also explains the future of the field through the use of machine learning tools, and how galaxy structure can be used as a new approach to measure unique features of the universe, such as cosmological properties and parameters.Researchers and students in the field of galaxy evolution, astronomers in other areas of extragalactic studies.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Christopher Conselice is currently Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He is an expert on the properties and evolution of galaxies, and in 2009 he won the Leverhulme Prize for his research. Before coming to Manchester, he was a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Nottingham, a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, and he completed his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD.Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 14, 2021).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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9780750326704

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