Inside-out Galaxy Formation

Jeremy Kepner

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Inside-out Galaxy Formation

Jeremy Kepner

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Current theories of galaxy formation have tended to focus on hierarchical structure formation, which is the most likely scenario for cosmological models with lots of power at small scales (e.g. standard cold dark matter). Models with little small scale power lead to scenarios closer to spherical collapse. Recently favored power spectra (e.g. CDM+Lambda) lie somewhere in between suggesting that both types of processes are important and may vary over time due to gaseous reheating. From this viewpoint this paper explores a very simple inside out scenario for galaxy formation. This scenario is a natural result of synthesizing earlier work on DM halos, spherical collapse, and gas redistribution via angular momentum. Although, this model is highly simplified and is not designed to accurately describe the detailed formation of any individual galaxy, it does (by design) predict the overall features of galaxies. In addition, old bulges and young disks are an almost unavoidable result of these very simple models. This scenario may provide a useful framework for both observers and theoreticians to think about galaxy formation.

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