The Morphological Origin of Dwarf Galaxies
Abstract
Dwarf galaxies (DGs) serve as extremely challenging objects in extragalactic astrophysics. Their origin is expected to be set as the first units in CDM cosmology. Nevertheless they are the galaxy type most sensitive to environmental influences and their division into multiple types with various properties have invoked the picture of their variant morphological transformations. Detailed observations reveal characteristics which allow to deduce the evolutionary paths and to witness how the environment has affected the evolution. Here we refer to general morphological DG types and review some general processes, most of which deplete gas-rich irregular DGs. Moreover, the variety of pecularities is briefly refered, but cannot be comprehensively analyzed because of limited paper space.
- Publication:
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EAS Publications Series
- Pub Date:
- July 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1051/eas/1148086
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1103.1116
- Bibcode:
- 2011EAS....48..383H
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the CRAL conference, Lyon, June 2010, "A Universe of Dwarf Galaxies", eds. Philippe Prugniel &