Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Evolution of Normal Galaxies: HST Morphologies and Deep Spectroscopy

  • Conference paper
The Early Universe with the VLT

Part of the book series: ESO Astrophysics Symposia ((ESO))

Abstract

I review progress in understanding the evolution of normal field and cluster galaxies through the combination of HST imaging and ground-based spectroscopy. These data suggest that the bulk of the star formation producing the present-day galaxy population occurred at accessible redshifts, z < 2. Furthermore, a surprising amount of the detailed processing that shaped the Hubble sequence and morphology-density relation occurred surprisingly recently. The stage is thus set for a concerted attack on these questions with the present generation of 8–10 metre large telescopes. An important step forward will be the development of efficient survey techniques for the systematic exploration of the z >1 Universe. Some possible approaches are briefly discussed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Abraham, R.G., Smecker-Hane, T.A., Hutchings, J.B., Carlsberg, R., Yee, H.C., Ellingson, E., Morris, S., Oke, J.B. & Rigler, M. 1996a, Ap J, in press (astro-ph/9605144)

    Google Scholar 

  • Abraham, R.G., Tanvir, N.R., Santiago, B.X., Ellis, R.S., Glazebrook, K. & van den Bergh, S., 1996b, MNRAS 279, L47.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Abraham, R.G., van den Bergh, S., Glazebrook, K., Ellis, R.S., Santiago, B.X., Surma, P. & Griffiths, R.E. 1996c, Ap J, in press (November).

    Google Scholar 

  • Allington-Smith, J.R., Ellis, R.S., Zirbel, E. & Oemler, A. 1993, Ap J, 404, 521.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Aragón-Salamanca, A., Ellis, R.S. & Sharpies, R.M. 1991, MNRAS, 248, 128.

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Aragón-Salamanca, A., Ellis, R.S., Couch, W.J. & Carter, D. 1993, MNRAS, 262, 764.

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Barger, A., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Ellis, R.S., Couch, W.J., Smail, I. & Sharpies, R.M. 1996a, MNRAS, 279, 1.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Barger, A., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Butcher, H., Couch, W.J., Dressler, A., Ellis, R.S., Oemler, A., Sharpies, R.M. & Smail, I. 1996b, in preparation.

    Google Scholar 

  • Baugh, C., Cole, S. & Frenk, C.S. 1996, MNRAS, submitted (astro-ph/9607056)

    Google Scholar 

  • Bender, R., Ziegler, B. & Bruzual, G. 1996, Ap J, 463, L1.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bergeron, J. & Boissé, P. 1991, A&A, 243, 344.

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Bertin, E. & Dennefeld, M. 1996, A&A, in press (astro-ph/9602110)

    Google Scholar 

  • Bower, R.G., Lucey, J.R. & Ellis, R.S. 1992, MNRAS 254, 601.

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Broadhurst, T.J., Ellis, R.S. & Shanks, T. 1988, MNRAS 235, 827.

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Butcher, H. & Oemler, A. 1978, Ap J, 219, 18.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Castander, F.J., Bower, R.G., Ellis, R.S., Aragön-Salamanca, A., Mason, K.O., Hasinger, G., McMahon, R.G., Carrera, F.J., Mittaz, J., Pérez-Fournon, I. & Lehto, H.J. 1995, Nature, 377, 39.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Churchill, C. W. 1996, in Young Stars & QSO Absorbers, eds. Viegas S.M. et al, ASP in press (astro-ph/9604127)

    Google Scholar 

  • Colless, M., Ellis, R.S., Taylor, K. & Hook, R. 1990, MNRAS 244, 408.

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Couch, W.J., Ellis, R.S., Sharpies, R.M. & Smail, I. 1994, Ap J, 430, 121.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Cowie, L., Hu, E. & Songaila, A. 1996, AJ, in press (astro-ph/9606079) Dressler, A. 1980, Ap J, 236, 251.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dressler, A., Oemler, A., Butcher, H. & Gunn, J.E. 1994, Ap J, 430, 107.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Dressier, A., Couch, W.J., Oemler, A., Ellis, R.S., Smail, I., Butcher, H. & Sharpies, R.M., in preparation.

    Google Scholar 

  • Djorgovski, S., Soifer, B.T., Pahre, M.A., Larkin, J.E., Smith, J.D., Neugebauer, G., Smail, I., Matthews, K., Hogg, D.W., Blandford, R.D., Cohen, J., Harrison, W. & Nelson, J. 1995, Ap J, 438, L13.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Ebbels, T.M.D., LeBorgne, J-F., Pellò, R., Ellis, R.S., Kneib, J-P., Smail, I. & Sanahuja, B. 1996, MNRAS, in press (astro-ph/9606015)

    Google Scholar 

  • Ellis, R.S. in Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics, eds. Bahcall, J.N. & Ostriker, J.P., Princeton University, in press (astro-ph/9508044)

    Google Scholar 

  • Ellis, R.S., Couch, W.J., MacLaren, I. & Koo, D.C. 1985, MNRAS, 217, 239.

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Ellis, R.S., Smail, I., Dressier, A., Couch, W.J., Oemler, A., Butcher, H., Sharpies, R.M. 1996, Ap J, submitted (astro-ph/9607154)

    Google Scholar 

  • Ellis, R.S., Colless, M., Broadhurst, T.J., Heyl, J. & Glazebrook, K. 1996, MNRAS 280, 235.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Fall, S.M., Chariot, S. & Pei, Y.C., 1996, Ap J, 464, L43.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Ferguson, H. & McGaugh, S. 1994, Ap J, 440, 470.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Franx, M. & van Dokkum, P.G. 1996,in New Light on Galaxy Evolution, eds. Bender, R. & Davies, R.L., in press (astro-ph/9603029)

    Google Scholar 

  • Glazebrook, K., Ellis, R.S., Colless, M., Tanvir, N. & Allington-Smith, J. R. 1995a, MNRAS, 273, 157.

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Glazebrook, K., Ellis, R.S., Santiago, B.X. & Griffiths, R.E., 1995b, MNRAS, 275, L19.

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Giavalisco, M., Steidel, C.C. & Macchetto, F.D., 1996, Ap J Lett, in press (astro-ph/9603062)

    Google Scholar 

  • Gronwall, C. & Koo, D. 1995, Ap J, 440, L1.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Guhathakurta, R., Majewski, S. & Tyson, A.J. 1990, Ap J, 357, L9.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Heyl, J.S., Colless, M., Ellis, R.S. & Broadhurst, T.J., MNRAS, submitted.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kauffmann, G. 1996, preprint (astro-ph/9502096)

    Google Scholar 

  • Kauffmann, G., Chariot, S. & White, S.D.M., 1996, MNRAS, in press (astro-ph/9605136)

    Google Scholar 

  • Kneib, J-P., Ellis, R.S., Smail, I., Couch, W.J. & Sharpies, R. 1996, Ap J, in press (astro-ph/9511015)

    Google Scholar 

  • Lilly, S.J., LeFévre, O., Crampton, D., Hammer, F. & Tresse, L. 1995, Ap J, 455, 50

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Lilly, S.J., LeFévre, O., Hammer, F. & Crampton, D. 1996, Ap J L, in press (astro-ph/9601050)

    Google Scholar 

  • Loveday, J., Peterson, B.A., Efstathiou, G. & Maddox, S.J. 1992, Ap J, 390, 338. McGaugh, S. 1993, Nature, 367, 538.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Neuschaefer, L., Ratnatunga, K.U., Griffiths, R.E., Casertano, S. & Im, M. 1995, Ap J, 435, 559.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • O’Connell, R.W. 1980, Ap J, 236, 340.

    Google Scholar 

  • Oemler, A. 1991, in Clusters & Superclusters of Galaxies, ed. Fabian, A.C., Kluwer, p29.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pahre, M., Djorgovski, S., de Carvalho, R. 1996, Ap J, 456, L79.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Perlmutter, S. et al, in Thermonuclear Supernovae, eds. Canal, R et al, in press (astro-ph/9602122)

    Google Scholar 

  • Quinn, P. 1984, Ap J, 279, 596.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Rose, J.A., Bower, R.G., Caldwell, N., Ellis, R.S., Sharpies, R.M. & Teague, P., 1994, A J, 108, 2054.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Sandage, A. & Visvanathan, N. 1978, Ap J, 228, 81.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schade, D.J., Lilly, S.J., Crampton, D., Hammer, F., LeFevre, O. & Tresse, L. 1996, Ap J, 451, L1.

    Google Scholar 

  • Steidel, C., Dickinson, M. & Persson, E. 1994, Ap J, 437, L75.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Steidel, C.C., Giavalisco, M., Dickinson, M. & Adelberger, K.L., 1996b, Ap J. Lett, in press (astro-ph/9604140).

    Google Scholar 

  • Tinsley, B.M. & Gunn, J.E. 1976, Ap J, 302, 52.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  • Toomre, A. 1977, in Evolution of Galaxies & Stellar Populations, eds. Tinsley, B.M. & Larson, R., Yale Univ. Press., p401.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK

    Richard Ellis

Authors
  1. Richard Ellis
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Science Division, European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-85748, Garching, Germany

    Jacqueline Bergeron

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1997 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Ellis, R. (1997). Evolution of Normal Galaxies: HST Morphologies and Deep Spectroscopy. In: Bergeron, J. (eds) The Early Universe with the VLT. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49709-7_7

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49709-7_7

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-662-22488-5

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-49709-7

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation