Accretion relics in the solar neighbourhood: Debris from ωCen's parent galaxy

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 359, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-103

  Meza, Andrés ^a,d   Navarro, Julio F ^a   Abadi, Mario G ^a,e   Steinmetz, Matthias ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^e CONICET ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Galaxy: disc; Galaxy: formation; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: structure

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; KINEMATICS; ORBITS; SATELLITES; SPACE DEBRIS; STARS;

DISC STARS; DYNAMICAL FRICTIONS; ECCENTRIC ORBITS; GALACTIC DISKS; GALAXIES: KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; GALAXIES:STRUCTURE; GALAXY FORMATIONS; GALAXY: DISKS; ORBITAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOLAR NEIGHBOURHOOD;

GALAXIES;

EID: 18444386871     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08869.x     Document Type: Article

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