Galactic Bulges (eBook)

Dr. Eija Laurikainen is Senior researcher at Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA), working at the University of Oulu. She is primary or co-investigator in several international collaborations on galaxy research. Dr. Reynier F. Peletier is Full Professor and Department Chair of the Kapteyn Institute of the University of Groningen. His main research focus is on formation and evolution of galaxies. Dr. Dimitri A. Gadotti is ESO Faculty/Operations Staff Astronomer. His research aims at understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies.

Preface.- Contents.- List of Contributors.- Bulges: Seen from a Philosophically-Informed Historical Perspective.- The Intrinsic Shape of Galaxy Bulges.- An Observational Guide to Identifying Pseudobulges and Classical Bulges in Disk Galaxies.- Observed Properties of boxy/peanut/barlens Bulges.- Nuclear Star Clusters and Bulges.- Stellar populations of bulges at low redshift.- The Stellar Kinematics of Extragalactic Bulges.- A Universal Kinematic Scaling Relation and Galaxy Bulges.- The Milky Way Bulge: Observed properties and a comparison to external galaxies.- TheoreticalModels of the Galactic Bulge.- Galaxy bulges and their massive black holes: a Review.- Bulge Formation viaMergers in Cosmological Simulations.- Bulge growth through disk instabilities in high-redshift galaxies.- Boxy/peanut/X bulges, barlenses and the thick part of galactic bars: What are they and how did they form?.- Explaining the formation of bulges with MOND.- Elliptical Galaxies and Bulges of Disk Galaxies: Summary of Progress and Outstanding Issues.- Index.