RSAA Colloquia / Seminars / Feast-of-Facts: Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 11:00-12:00; Duffield Lecture Theatre
Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca
"Transforming Spirals into S0s"
There is now little doubt that Lenticular (S0) galaxies are the descendants of spiral galaxies whose star-formation ceased. In this talk I will present some of the evidence we have gathered in support of this hypothesis and the physical mechanisms driving the transformation. I will also discuss some recent and ongoing work on applying spectroscopic bulge-disk decomposition techniques to multiple IFU surveys such as MaNGA. |