Probing Galaxy Evolution by Unveiling the Structure of Massive Galaxies Across Cosmic Time and in Diverse Environments

• Main Author: Weinzirl, Timothy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Awarded the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize, and with a foreword by thesis supervisor Professor Shardha Jogee at the University of Texas at Austin, this thesis discusses one of the primary outstanding problems in extragalactic astronomy: how galaxies form and evolve. G...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Probing the Structure and Assembly of Nearby Field Spirals
• Exploring the Structure and Assembly of Galaxies at the Heart of the Coma Cluster
• Structure and Assembly of the Most Massive Galaxies Present a Few Gyr (z ~ 2 – 3) After the Big Bang
• Summary, Implications and Future Work.