Cosmological N-body simulations of galaxy merging

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Feb 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980apj...236...43a&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 236, Feb. 15, 1980, p. 43-57.

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Computerized Simulation, Cosmology, Galactic Evolution, Many Body Problem, Astronomical Models, Elliptical Galaxies, Galactic Structure, Stellar Models

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The paper reports N-body experiments designed to simulate galaxy merging in a cosmological setting and test the hypothesis that bright elliptical galaxies are merger remnants. In the simulations, merging occurs hierarchically and mainly from marginally bound two-body orbits of low angular momentum which determines the form of a radius-mass relation for the characteristic spin of merger remnants. The fraction of remnants is higher in groups than in the field, and their mass function progressively flattens as the result of a runaway effect; large-scale clustering is not affected by merging, but small-scale clustering depends on the merging process.

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