Dynamical friction and galaxy merging time-scales

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 383, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-101

  Boylan Kolchin, Michael ^a   Ma, Chung Pei ^a   Quataert, Eliot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: formation

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; GALAXIES; ORBITS; SATELLITES; STARS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

BLACK HOLES; DARK MATTER HALOS; DYNAMICAL FRICTIONS; FORMATION MODEL; GALAXY EVOLUTION; GALAXY FORMATIONS; MASS RATIO; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; STELLAR MASS; TIME-SCALES;

MERGING;

EID: 37349103068     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12530.x     Document Type: Article

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