On relaxation processes in collisionless mergers

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 658, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 731-747

  Valluri, Monica ^a,b   Vass, Ileana M ^b,c   Kazantzidis, Stelios ^a,b   Kravtsov, Andrey V ^a,b,d   Bohn, Courtlandt L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Northern Illinois University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Dark matter; Methods: numerical

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247203131     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/511298     Document Type: Article

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