Scientific Seminars
Evolution of the Hubble Sequence over the past 10 Gyr
Paolo Cassata
LAM, Marseille
2012-09-05 14:00 IASF - Sala riunioni IV piano
The last few years have seen a dramatic improvement of our knowledge
of galaxy evolution in the first 5 Gyr of cosmic history, thanks to the
development of red spectrographs on 8m class telescopes (i.e. FORS2 on the
VLT) in combination with new wide field instrumentation onboard the Hubble
Space Telescope (ACS in the optical and WFC3 in the near-infrared). I will
review the latest progress in this field, in particular about the evolution of
passive early-type galaxies and their structure, and I will explain how studying
the evolution of the Hubble sequence at high redshift can help us constraining
the models of galaxy evolution. I will conclude by showing
how we plan to improve our census of galaxies at 2 |