The effect of mass ratio on the morphology and time-scales of disc galaxy mergers

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 404, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 575-589

  Lotz, Jennifer M ^a   Jonsson, Patrik ^b   Cox, T J ^c   Primack, Joel R ^d  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: interactions; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MORPHOLOGY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

DISK GALAXIES; GALAXIES: INTERACTIONS; GALAXIES:STRUCTURE; GALAXY EVOLUTION; GAS FRACTION; MASS RATIO; QUANTITATIVE MORPHOLOGY; RELATIVE ORIENTATION; TIME-SCALES; UNEQUAL MASS;

MERGING;

EID: 77953565332     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16268.x     Document Type: Article

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