Resonant stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7255, 2009, Pages 605-607

  D'Onghia, Elena ^a,b   Besla, Gurtina ^b   Cox, Thomas J ^b   Hernquist, Lars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; SPHERE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMOS; DENSITY; GRAVITY; MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 68149098914     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08215     Document Type: Article

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