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Mar 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982apj...254..451r&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 254, Mar. 15, 1982, p. 451-455. Research supported by the Research Corp.;
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Galactic Evolution, Galactic Mass, Mass Distribution, Mass To Light Ratios, Sizing (Shaping), Stellar Mass Ejection, Angular Distribution, Cosmology, Elliptical Galaxies, Outgassing, Stellar Evolution
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Galactic mass loss due to gas production by an evolving stellar population and removal due to supernovae or some other energy source can alter the size of a galaxy over a long time through the adiabatic invariants of the orbits. Numerical and analytic results show that if the mass profile changes homologously, the scale size of the galaxy does also. Under conventional assumptions about galaxy age and initial mass function, this bloating is smaller than the differences between open and flat cosmologies at z = 0.5. If, however, some elliptical galaxies maintain star formation until recent epochs and then lose a (correspondingly) larger fraction of their mass, the effect may be important. It may also be important in decreasing the size of cD galaxies as a result of gas accretion.
Potter David M.
Richstone Douglas O.
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