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Merging galaxies in compact groups: analytical theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Victor M. Kontorovich*
Affiliation:
Institute of Radio Astronomy, 4 Krasnoznamennaya St., Kharkov 310002, Ukraine

Abstract

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The predominance of minor mergers, i.e. the non-locality of mergings, results in a mass function slope (“Shechter” index) intermediate between a power-law index of a spectrum with constant mass flux and that of constant flux of the number of massive galaxies. The index proves to be close to that of the faint end of the galaxy luminosity function.

Type
Part 5. Dark Matter and Clustering
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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