Comparing Various Approaches to Simulating the Formation of Shell Galaxies
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2015-05-27 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
The model of a radial minor merger proposed by Quinn (1984), which successfully reproduces the observed regular shell systems in shell galaxies, is ideal for a test-particle simulation. We compare such a simulation with a self-consistent one. They agree very well in positions of the first generation of shells but potentially important effects -- dynamical friction and gradual decay of the dwarf galaxy -- are not present in the test-particle model, therefore we look for a proper way to include them.
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@article{arxiv.1103.2565,
title = {Comparing Various Approaches to Simulating the Formation of Shell Galaxies},
author = {Ivana Ebrova and Katerina Bartoskova and Bruno Jungwiert and Lucie Jilkova and Miroslav Krizek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.2565},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Proceedings of JENAM 2010, Symposium 2: "Environment and the formation of galaxies: 30 years later"