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Gas dynamics and disk-galaxy evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

R. G. Carlberg
R. G. Carlberg*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto

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Gas dynamics plays a vital role in the formation and ongoing evolution of a disk galaxy through its ability to have dissipative collisions. In this paper the simplest possible gas physics which provides a description of a gaseous component is incorporated into N-body experiments to investigate the formation of a disk galaxy.

Type
PART III: Dynamics and Evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 106: The Milky Way Galaxy , 1985 , pp. 615 - 620
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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