Structure, kinematics and chemical enrichment patterns after major gas-rich disc-disc mergers

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 402, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1489-1503

  Richard, Simon ^a,b   Brook, Chris B ^c   Martel, Hugo ^a,b   Kawata, Daisuke ^d   Gibson, Brad K ^c   Sanchez Blazquez, Patricia ^c,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Québec   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; GALAXIES; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; SUPERNOVAE;

ENRICHMENT PATTERNS; GALAXIES: INTERACTIONS; GALAXIES:STRUCTURE; GALAXY EVOLUTION; GALAXY FORMATIONS; ORBITAL PARAMETERS; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS ALGORITHM; THICK DISCS; THIN DISK; Α-FE;

MERGING;

EID: 77949338404     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.16008.x     Document Type: Article

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