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ISBN: | 9783319069593 3319069594 9783319069586
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Notes: | "Doctoral thesis accepted by the University of Texas at Austin, USA." Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 1, 2014).
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Summary: | Awarded the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize, and with a foreword by thesis supervisor Professor Shardha Jogee at the University of Texas at Austin, this thesis discusses one of the primary outstanding problems in extragalactic astronomy: how galaxies form and evolve. Galaxies consist of two fundamental kinds of structure: rotationally supported disks and spheroidal/triaxial structures supported by random stellar motions. Understanding the balance between these galaxy components is vital to comprehending the relative importance of the different mechanisms (galaxy.
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Other form: | Print version: Weinzirl, Tim. Probing Galaxy Evolution by Unveiling the Structure of Massive Galaxies Across Cosmic Time and in Diverse Environments. Dordrecht : Springer, ©2014 9783319069586
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Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-06959-3
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