Shapes of stellar systems and dark halos from simulations of galaxy major mergers

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 646, Issue II, 2006, Pages

  Novak, Gregory S ^a   Cox, Thomas J ^b   Primack, Joel R ^c   Jonsson, Patrik ^c   Dekel, Avishai ^d  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747502538     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/506605     Document Type: Article

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