Evidence for the transformation from lenticular to spiral galaxies

arXiv:2608.25673 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, submitted to ApJ

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Metallicity — 18× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN Feedback — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Galaxy Quenching — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Simple Stellar Population — 1× in this paper
• Two-Phase Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• A two-phase model of galaxy formation: IV. Seeding and growing supermassive black holes in dark matter halos
• Radio AGN feedback sustains quiescence only in a minority of massive galaxies
• A Universal Dance of Galactic Disks: Ubiquitous Precession and Its Implications
• Ongoing Morphological Transformation from Elliptical to Spiral Galaxies Induced by Gas Accretion from Neighboring Galaxies

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