Tidal dwarf galaxies
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We review the observational evidences for tidal dwarf galaxies, a class of small galaxies formed out of the tidal debris of collisions between massive galaxies. Tidal dwarfs are found far from the interacting parent galaxies, associated to massive clouds of atomic hydrogen located at the tip of long tidal tails. These newly formed galaxies are among the best cases for the study of galaxy formation in the nearby Universe.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9711253,
title = {Tidal dwarf galaxies},
author = {Pierre-Alain Duc and Felix Mirabel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9711253},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages including 7 figures; 2 figures in jpg format; to be published in Proceedings of IAU Symp. 186 (Kyoto); also available at http://www.eso.org/~pduc/articles/articles.html