Warps and Cosmic Infall
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
N-body simulations show that when infall reorientates the outer parts of a galactic halo by several degrees per Gyr, a self-gravitating disk that is embedded in the halo develops an integral-sign warp that is comparable in amplitude to observed warps. Studies of angular-momentum acquisition suggest that the required rate of halo reorientation is realistic for galaxies like the Milky Way.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9807161,
title = {Warps and Cosmic Infall},
author = {Ing-Guey Jiang and James Binney},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9807161},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS on June 19, 1998