Halo-stripping in Galactic Collisions
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Galactic collisions are normally modeled in a CDM model by assuming the DM consists of a small number of very massive objects. This note shows that the behaviour of a CDM halo during collisions depends critically on the mass of the particles that make it up, and in particular, all halo particles below a certain characteristic mass are likely to be lost.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9607090,
title = {Halo-stripping in Galactic Collisions},
author = {Peter J. S. Watson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9607090},
year = {2007}
}
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10 pages, 1 figure