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Pulsation Modes of Spherical Stellar Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

J. A. Sellwood  and
C. Pryor
J. A. Sellwood
Affiliation:
Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyDept. of Physics and Astronomy, 136 Frelinghuysen Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
C. Pryor
Affiliation:
Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyDept. of Physics and Astronomy, 136 Frelinghuysen Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019

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Kuhn & Miller (1989, KM hereafter) proposed that a small stellar system in orbit around a large galaxy could be heated through resonant coupling between the orbital motion and internal modes of oscillation of the satellite. They further argued that the apparently large mass-to-light (M/L) ratios of dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies around the Milky Way (e.g., Armandroff, Olszewski & Pryor 1995) could be illusory because the satellites are far from virial equilibrium as a consequence of such resonant heating. We note that if the true M/Ls are small, some dSphs have much more kinetic energy than is required to unbind them; a resonant pumping mechanism which adds a modest amount of energy each cycle could not achieve this (Pryor 1996).

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II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 11 , Issue 2: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIIIrd General Assembly of the IAU (Part B), 1997 , 1998 , pp. 638 - 640
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998

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