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The mechanics of the structured particles develops. The substantiation of applicability of such mechanics for the description of processes of evolution in open nonequilibrium systems is offered. The consequences following from the equations…

General Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 V. M. Somsikov

Understanding the role of mergers in galaxy formation is one of the most outstanding problems in extragalactic astronomy. While we now have an idea for how the merger fraction evolves at redshifts z < 3, converting this merger fraction into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Christopher J. Conselice

The process of equilibration of a colliding hard-disks system is studied in the framework of classical mechanic. The method consists of dividing the nonequilibrium system into the interacting subsystems; the evolution one of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-17 V. M. Somsikov

We present the results of a suite of \Nbody simulations aimed at understanding the fundamental aspects of the long-term evolution of the internal kinematics of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters. Our models enable us to study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-24 Maria Tiongco , Enrico Vesperini , Anna Lisa Varri

The mass and anisotropy of an elliptical galaxy can be simultaneously determined from velocity dispersion and line profile shape measurements. We describe the principles, techniques, and limitations of this approach, and the results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ortwin Gerhard , Gunther Jeske , R. P. Saglia , Ralf Bender

Theoretical models are vital for exploring the galaxy merger process, which plays a crucial role in the evolution of galaxies. Recent advances in modelling have placed tight constraints on the buildup of stellar material in galaxies across…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-10 Joseph A. O'Leary , Benjamin P. Moster , Eva Krämer

Exoplanets are often found with short periods or high eccentricities, and multiple-planet systems are often in resonance. They require dynamical theories that describe more extreme motions than those of the relatively placid planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-22 Daniel C. Fabrycky

We explore how observations relate to the physical properties of the emitting galaxies by post-processing a pair of merging $z\sim2$ galaxies from the cosmological, hydrodynamical simulation NewHorizon using LCARS (Light from Cloudy Added…

Stellar mergers and common-envelope evolution are fast (dynamical-timescale) interactions in binary stars that drastically alter their evolution. They are key to understanding a plethora of astrophysical phenomena. Stellar mergers are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Fabian R. N. Schneider , Mike Y. M. Lau , Friedrich K. Roepke

By means of N-body simulations we study the global dynamics of triplets of galaxies, considering initial conditions starting from `maximum expansion' and in virial equilibrium. Unlike previous studies we treat galaxies self-consistently. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Hector Aceves

The kinematics of galaxies provide valuable insights in their physics and assembly history. Kinematics are governed not only by the gravitational potential, but also by merger events and stellar feedback processes such as stellar winds and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 Arjan Bik , Göran Östlin , Matthew Hayes , Jens Melinder , Veronica Menacho

The global 21 cm HI emission-line profile of a galaxy encodes valuable information on the spatial distribution and kinematics of the neutral atomic gas. Galaxy interactions significantly influence the HI disk and imprint observable features…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Pei Zuo , Luis C. Ho , Jing Wang , Niankun Yu , Jinyi Shangguan

To understand galaxies and their evolution, it is necessary to describe how the different scales interact: how the microscopic physics, such as star formation, or the large scale physics, such as galaxy interactions may modify the galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel Pfenniger

Integral field spectroscopy surveys provide spatially resolved gas and stellar kinematics of galaxies. They have unveiled a range of atypical kinematic phenomena, which require detailed modelling to understand. We present results from a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Philip Taylor , Christoph Federrath , Chiaki Kobayashi

We investigate the impact of mergers on the mass estimation of galaxy clusters using $N$-body + hydrodynamical simulation data. We estimate virial mass from these data and compare it with real mass. When the smaller subcluster's mass is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Motokazu Takizawa , Ryo Nagino , Kyoko Matsushita

We show how hydrostatic equilibrium in galaxy clusters can be quantitatively probed combining X-ray, SZ, and gravitational-lensing data. Our previously published method for recovering three-dimensional cluster gas distributions avoids the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ewald Puchwein , Matthias Bartelmann

The nonthermal radiation observed from a handfull of clusters of Galaxies is the proof that particle acceleration occurs in the intracluster medium. It is often believed that shock surfaces associated with either mergers of clusters of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pasquale Blasi , Stefano Gabici

Modeling the orbital dynamics of objects in galactic disks is crucial to understanding the stability and evolution of disk galaxies. While studies of galactic orbits are largely dominated by $N$-body simulations, perturbative analytical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-24 Sena Ghobadi

We review several aspects of clusters of galaxies and their application to cosmology. We present first results of numerical simulations of the dynamics of the intra-cluster gas and of different interaction processes between cluster galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Sabine Schindler

The effects of cluster mergers on the metal enrichment of the intra-cluster gas in clusters of galaxies are reviewed. Mergers can influence the metal production as well as the gas ejection processes, which transport the gas from the galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabine Schindler