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Tidal Tails and Galaxy Evolution

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We review recent results on the tidal structures of spiral galaxies. Topics included are general characteristics of tails; kinematics of tidal structures and dark haloes of host galaxies; frequency of tidal distortions at z~1.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0009473,
  title  = {Tidal Tails and Galaxy Evolution},
  author = {V. P. Reshetnikov and N. Ya. Sotnikova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0009473},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, "Morphology and Dynamics of Stellar Systems: Star Clusters, Galactic Arms and Rings", Proc. JENAM-2000, in press