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The formation and evolution of the ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) continues to remain a puzzle. Similarities and differences in the morphological and the kinematical properties of the UDGs with their possible precursors, namely low-surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-11 Nilanjana Nandi , Arunima Banerjee

N-Body/SPH simulations are used to study the evolution of dwarf irregular galaxies (dIrrs) entering the dark matter halo of the Milky Way or M31 on plunging orbits. We propose a new dynamical mechanism driving the evolution of gas rich,…

A review of gravitational and hydrodynamical processes during formation of clusters and evolution of galaxies is given. Early, at the advent of N-body computer simulations, the importance of tidal fields in galaxy encounters has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jan Palous

We present results from high-resolution N-Body/SPH simulations of rotationally supported dwarf irregular galaxies moving on bound orbits in the massive dark matter halo of the Milky Way.The dwarf models span a range in disk surface density…

The presence of an external tidal field often induces significant dynamical evolutionary effects on the internal kinematics of star clusters. Previous studies investigating the restricted three-body problem with applications to star cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-29 Maria Tiongco , Enrico Vesperini , Anna Lisa Varri

We present a series of chemodynamical simulations of Magellanic-like systems consisting of two interacting, equal-mass dwarf galaxies orbiting a massive host galaxy, including feedback and star formation, tides, and ram pressure. We study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 David Williamson , Hugo Martel

Using a high resolution N-body simulation of a two-component dwarf galaxy orbiting in the potential of the Milky Way, we study two effects that lead to significant biases in mass estimates of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Both are due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ewa L. Lokas , Stelios Kazantzidis , Jaroslaw Klimentowski , Lucio Mayer

Interactions with the host galaxy strip stars and dark matter from the outer regions of satellite galaxies. Meanwhile, some stars from the central regions can migrate outward due to dynamical heating, producing an excess in the outer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Zhihao Yin , Go Ogiya , Frank C. van den Bosch

We present a large sample of fully self-consistent hydrodynamical Nbody/Tree-SPH simulations of isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). It has enabled us to identify the key physical parameters and mechanisms at the origin of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Y. Revaz , P. Jablonka , T. Sawala , V. Hill , B. Letarte , M. Irwin , G. Battaglia , A. Helmi , M. D. Shetrone , E. Tolstoy , K. A. Venn

We present a new two-fluid conduction scheme to simulate the evolution of an isolated, self-gravitating, equilibrium cluster of stars and collisionless dark matter on secular (gravothermal) timescales. We integrate the equations in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-24 Yi-Ming Zhong , Stuart L. Shapiro

We study the impact of galaxy mergers on stellar population profiles/gradients of early-type galaxies (ETGs) using ETGs at $z<0.055$ in the Stripe 82 region of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and MaNGA integral field unit spectroscopic data.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Yongmin Yoon , Jongwan Ko , Jae-Woo Kim

Using self-consistent three-dimensional (3D) N-body simulations, we investigate the physical properties of non-axisymmetric features in a disk galaxy created by a tidal interaction with its companion. The primary galaxy consists of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Sang Hoon Oh , Woong-Tae Kim , Hyung Mok Lee

We perform simulations of star cluster formation to investigate the morphological evolution of embedded star clusters in the earliest stages of their evolution. We conduct our simulations with Torch, which uses the AMUSE framework to couple…

We present six simulations of galactic stellar haloes formed by the tidal disruption of accreted dwarf galaxies in a fully cosmological setting. Our model is based on the Aquarius project, a suite of high resolution N-body simulations of…

We compute the evolution of interstellar dust in a hydrodynamic simulation of an isolated disc galaxy. We newly implement the evolution of full grain size distribution by sampling 32 grid points on the axis of the grain radius. We solve it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Shohei Aoyama , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Kentaro Nagamine

We use N-body simulations to model the tidal evolution of dark matter-dominated dwarf spheroidal galaxies embedded in cuspy Navarro-Frenk-White subhalos. Tides gradually peel off stars and dark matter from a subhalo, trimming it down…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-18 Raphaël Errani , Julio F. Navarro , Rodrigo Ibata , Jorge Peñarrubia

Tidal dwarf galaxies form during the interaction, collision or merger of massive spiral galaxies. They can resemble "normal" dwarf galaxies in terms of mass, size, and become dwarf satellites orbiting around their massive progenitor. They…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Frederic Bournaud

Precise measurements of mass in dark matter dominated dwarf spheroidal galaxies are of great importance for testing the theories of structure formation. We use $N$-body simulations of the tidal evolution of a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-25 Klaudia Kowalczyk , Ewa L. Lokas

We adopt a scenario in which the Galactic thick disk was formed by minor merging between the first generation of the Galactic thin disk (FGTD) and a dwarf galaxy about 9 Gyr ago and thereby investigate chemical and dynamical properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Kenji Bekki , Takuji Tsujimoto

We present the results of optical long-slit spectral observations of interacting system Arp305 carried out at the 6m telescope BTA at the SAO RAS: the radial variation of gas kinematics and oxygen abundance. This study continues the series…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Anatoly V. Zasov , Anna S. Saburova , Oleg V. Egorov , Viktor L. Afanasiev
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