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Galaxy Disks

Published in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics • Mar 2, 2011
Authors:
P. Kruit
,
K. C. Freeman

Abstract

The disks of disk galaxies contain a substantial fraction of their baryonic matter and angular momentum, and much of the evolutionary activity in these galaxies, such as the formation of stars, spiral arms, bars and rings, and the various forms of secular evolution, takes place in their disks. The f...

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