Predicting the properties of the remnants of dissipative galaxy mergers

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 384, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 94-106

  Covington, M ^a,d,e   Dekel, A ^a,b   Cox, T J ^c   Jonsson, P ^d   Primack, J R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^e NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: interactions

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; STARS;

DISSIPATIVE ENERGY LOSS; ENERGY STAR; GALAXIES: ELLIPTICAL AND LENTICULAR CD; GALAXIES: INTERACTIONS; GALAXY EVOLUTION; GALAXY FORMATIONS; MERGER SIMULATION; PROPERTY; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS; STARS FORMATION;

GALAXIES;

EID: 38749148053     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12601.x     Document Type: Article

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