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Collisional Effects on the Density Profiles of Spherical Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

L.A. Aguilar  and
S.D.M. White
L.A. Aguilar
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138, USA
S.D.M. White
Affiliation:
Steward Observatory University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA

Abstract

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We use N-body simulations to study the time evolution and the final shape of the density profiles of non-rotating spherical galaxies that have undergone a tidal encounter. We consider models with de Vaucouleurs and King surface density profiles and with isotropic, tangential and radially biased velocity distributions.

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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 127: Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies , 1987 , pp. 517 - 518
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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