Jogee, Shardha and Conselice, Christopher and Laine, Seppo (2004) Evolution and Impact of Bars over the Last Nine Gyr: Early Results from GEMS. In: Penetrating Bars through Masks of Cosmic Dust: The Hubble Tuning Fork strikes a New Note. Astrophysics and Space Science Library. No.319. Springer , Dordrecht, pp. 291-300. ISBN 978-94-015-7085-5. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191127-095615996
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Abstract
Bars drive the dynamical evolution of disk galaxies by redistributing mass and angular momentum, and they are ubiquitous in present-day spirals. Early studies of the Hubble Deep Field reported a dramatic decline in the rest-frame optical bar fraction f_(opt) to below 5% at redshifts z > 0.7, implying that disks at these epochs are fundamentally different from present-day spirals. The GEMS bar project, based on ~ 10,000 galaxies with HST-based morphologies and accurate redshifts over the range 0.2–1.3, aims at constraining the evolution and impact of bars over the last 9 Gyr. We present early results indicating that f_(opt) remains ~ constant with a lower limit of ~ 30% over z ~ 0.2–1.3, corresponding to lookback times of ~ 2.5–9 Gyr. The bars detected at z > 0.6 are primarily strong with ellipticities of 0.4–0.8. Remarkably, both the bar fraction and range of bar sizes observed at z > 0.6, appear to be comparable to the values measured in the local Universe for bars of corresponding strengths. Implications for bar evolution models are discussed.
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| Additional Information: | © 2004 Springer Science+Business Media New York. SJ acknowledges support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under LTSA Grant NAG5-13063 issued through the Office of Space Science, and thanks Paul Eskridge for kindly providing images and parameters for galaxies in the OSU survey. | |||||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | Galaxy Evolution; Bars; Dynamics; Galaxy Surveys | |||||||||
| Series Name: | Astrophysics and Space Science Library | |||||||||
| Issue or Number: | 319 | |||||||||
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| Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191127-095615996 | |||||||||
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| Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | |||||||||
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