Galactic Bulges

Preface.- Contents.- List of Contributors.- Bulges: Seen from a Philosophically-Informed Historical Perspective.- The Intrinsic Shape of Galaxy Bulges.- An Observational Guide to Identifying Pseudobulges and Classical Bulges in Disk Galaxies.- Observed Properties of boxy/peanut/barlens Bulges.- Nuclear Star Clusters and Bulges.- Stellar populations of bulges at low redshift.- The Stellar Kinematics of Extragalactic Bulges.- A Universal Kinematic Scaling Relation and Galaxy Bulges.- The Milky Way Bulge: Observed properties and a comparison to external galaxies.- TheoreticalModels of the Galactic Bulge.- Galaxy bulges and their massive black holes: a Review.- Bulge Formation viaMergers in Cosmological Simulations.- Bulge growth through disk instabilities in high-redshift galaxies.- Boxy/peanut/X bulges, barlenses and the thick part of galactic bars: What are they and how did they form?.- Explaining the formation of bulges with MOND.- Elliptical Galaxies and Bulges of Disk Galaxies: Summary of Progress and Outstanding Issues.- Index.... Mehr