Spatially-resolved Evolution of Galaxies

Abstract

Projected in the sky, galaxies are spatially-resolved objects. To understand how they formed and evolve it is necessary to study the spatial distribution of their observables. In this review talk, we briefly describe some scaling relations used to understand the physical processes that drive galaxy evolution, in particular for disk-like star-forming galaxies. First, we explore the relations derived using integrated galactic properties, then we introduce the scaling relations at kpc scales derived using the technique called Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) for large samples of galaxies in the nearby Universe.The very existence of scaling relations at kpc scales is a strong evidence that any physical scenario that explains the observed global scaling relations must be able to also explain their local counterpart.