Gone with the wind: the origin of S0 galaxies in clusters
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We present the first 3-dimensional high resolution hydro-dynamical simulations of the interaction between the hot ionised intra-cluster medium and the cold interstellar medium of spiral galaxies. Ram pressure and turbulent/viscous stripping removes 100% of the atomic hydrogen content of luminous galaxies like the Milky Way within 100 million years. These mechanisms naturally account for the morphology of S0 galaxies, the rapid truncation of star formation implied by spectroscopic observations, as well as a host of observational data on the HI morphology of galaxies in clusters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0006031,
title = {Gone with the wind: the origin of S0 galaxies in clusters},
author = {Vicent Quilis and Ben Moore and Richard Bower},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0006031},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 4 figures. Further simulation details and movies at www.nbody.net