2003/10/06 by Xiaolei Zhang, Zhang, Xiaolei
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0310154
2 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 220, Dark Matter in Galaxies, eds. S. Ryder, D.J. Pisano, M. Walker, K. Freeman
arxiv created 2003/10/06 · openalex publication_date 2003/10/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The secular evolution process which slowly transforms the morphology of a given galaxy over its lifetime through mostly internal dynamical mechanisms could naturally account for most of the observed properties of physical galaxies (Zhang 2003a). As an emerging paradigm for galaxy evolution, its dynamical foundations had been established in the past few years (Zhang 1996, 1998, 1999). In this paper, we explore further implications of the secular morphological evolution process in reproducing the well-known scaling relations of galaxies.