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New N-body experiments on the spiral structure of galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

K. O. Thielheim  and
H. Wolff
K. O. Thielheim
Affiliation:
University of Kiel, F.R.G.
H. Wolff
Affiliation:
University of Kiel, F.R.G.

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N-body experiments with stellar disks like those performed by Hohl (1971) and Sellwood (1981) show regular, global, two-armed spiral structures associated with bar formation. The question is whether the spiral is caused by the bar, and if this is true, how the generating mechanism works.

Type
PART III: Dynamics and Evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 106: The Milky Way Galaxy , 1985 , pp. 539 - 540
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

References

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Thielheim, K.O. and Wolff, H. 1984, Ap. J., in press Google Scholar