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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2017
The tidal effects of disruption and merger of a massive perturber-quasar on a galaxy cluster have been studied by computer simulations using Aarseth's NBODY2 code. The model consists of a spherical N-body galaxy cluster and a point-mass perturber. A wide range of initial conditions (mass ratio of the galaxy and the perturber, the virial coefficient q of the N-body system, and the pericentric distances of orbits) have been considered.