The star formation rate and stellar content contributions of morphological components in the EAGLE simulations

Understand

The Hubble sequence provides a useful classification of galaxy morphology at low redshift.

• However, morphologies are not static, but rather evolve as the growth of structure proceeds through mergers, accretion and secular processes.
• We investigate how kinematically defined disc and spheroidal structures form and evolve in the EAGLE hydrodynamic simulation of galaxy formation.
• At high redshift most galaxies of all masses are asymmetric.