The build-up of pseudo-bulges in a hierarchical universe
- Izquierdo-Villalba, David Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA), Plaza San Juan, 1, E-44001 Teruel, Spain
- Bonoli, Silvia IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, E-48013 Bilbao, Spain
- Spinoso, Daniele Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA), Plaza San Juan, 1, E-44001 Teruel, Spain
- Rosas-Guevara, Yetli Donostia International Physics Centre (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, E-20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
- Henriques, Bruno M B ORCID Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- Hernández-Monteagudo, Carlos Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA) – Unidad Asociada al CSIC, Plaza San Juan, 1, E-44001 Teruel, Spain
- 2019-6-19
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. - Oxford University Press (OUP). - 2019, vol. 488, no. 1, p. 609-632
English
ABSTRACT
We study the cosmological build-up of pseudo-bulges using the L-Galaxies semi-analytical model for galaxy formation with a new approach for following separately the assembly of classical bulges and pseudo-bulges. Classical bulges are assumed to be the result of violent processes (i.e. mergers and starbursts), while the formation of pseudo-bulges is connected to the secular growth of discs. We apply the model to both the Millennium and the Millennium II simulations, in order to study our results across a wide range of stellar masses ($\rm 10^{7}\!-\!10^{11.5}\, {\rm M}_{\odot }$). We find that z = 0 pseudo-bulges mainly reside in galaxies of $\mathit{ M}_{\rm stellar} \, {\sim }\, 10^{10}\!-\!10^{10.5}\, {\rm M}_{\odot }$ ($\mathit{ M}_{\rm halo} \, {\sim }\, 10^{11.5}\!-\!10^{12}\, {\rm M}_{\odot }$) and we recover structural properties of these objects (e.g. sizes and bulge-to-total ratios) that are in good agreement with observational results. Tracing their formation history, we find that pseudo-bulges assembled in galaxies with a very quiet merger history, as opposed to the host galaxies of classical bulges. Regarding the bulge structure, we find that $\, {\sim }\, 30{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of the galaxies with a predominant pseudo-bulge feature a composite structure, hosting both a pseudo- and a classical bulge component. The classical component typically constitutes ${\sim }\, 10{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of the total bulge galaxy mass. When looking at the properties of the host galaxies, we find that z = 0 pseudo-bulges are hosted by main-sequence galaxies, characterized by a stellar population which is generally younger compared to the one of the hosts of classical bulges.
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- DOI 10.1093/mnras/stz1694
- ISSN 0035-8711
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- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/107949
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